Electronic tattoo gauges mental strain
Researchers gave participants face tattoos that can track when their brain is working too hard….
Pull&Bear taps talented French artist Thomas Lélu for a second drop
Translated by Nicola Mira Published November 14, 2025 Pull&Bear is going all-in on the colour blue. After dropping a first collaboration with French artist Thomas Lélu earlier this year, a capsule collection themed around Valentine‘s Day, the Inditex group’s fashion chain has teamed up once again with Lélu to present a second jointly designed collection, now available…
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
Thomas, who won reelection last week, points to the local pushback against the proposed Prince William Digital Gateway, which would put more than 30 data centers on the edge of a national reserve located in the north of the state. A group of homeowners have challenged the project in court, and a judge voided zoning…
Massive hidden waves are rapidly melting Greenland’s glaciers
Iceberg calving happens when large pieces of ice split from the front of a glacier and fall into the ocean. This natural event is a major contributor to the rapid reduction of ice on the Greenland ice sheet. For the first time, an international team led by the University of Zurich (UZH) and the University…
Scientists uncover hidden atomic process that supercharges propylene production
Many familiar items, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, rely on a process that converts propane into propylene. In 2021, a study in Science showed that chemists could use tandem nanoscale catalysts to merge several steps of this conversion into a single reaction — an approach that increases yield and reduces costs. However, the…
Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars with no obvious fuel
A galaxy called NGC 6789, as seen by the Two-meter Twin Telescope Ignacio Trujillo et al 2025 About 12 million light years away lies an impossible galaxy. Over the last 600 million years, its core has been forming new stars – but there is no apparent source for the fuel that has fed that star…
New Scientist recommends this extreme birdwatching documentary
Quentin, in a shot taken by his brother Owen Owen Reiser Timothy RevellExecutive editor, London “This here would be my older brother Quentin. And last year, he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of early-onset birdwatcher.” This is Owen, talking in Listers: A glimpse into extreme birdwatching –and it may just be my…
The Arrogant Ape review: Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism
Tests of chimps’ intelligence often take place in labs, not in the wild or in sanctuaries like this one PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP via Getty Images The Arrogant ApeChristine Webb, Abacus, UK; Avery, US IN THE beginning, God made man in his image, granting him dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth. Most people…
Breakthrough shows light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Researchers at Rice University have found that certain atom-thin semiconductors, known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), can physically shift their atomic lattice when exposed to light. This newly observed response offers a controllable way to tune the behavior and properties of these ultrathin materials. The phenomenon appears in a subtype of TMDs called Janus materials,…
Oldest ever RNA sample recovered from woolly mammoth
The skin and muscle of Yuka’s front left leg are exceptionally well preserved Love Dalen A woolly mammoth that was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years has yielded the world’s oldest RNA. The specimen, found in 2010 and nicknamed Yuka, is regarded as the best-preserved woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) ever found. Yuka…
Shein openings across France delayed after shoppers balked at Paris store prices
By Reuters Published November 14, 2025 The opening of five new Shein concession stores across France has been delayed, department store owner Societe des Grands Magasins said on Friday, as it adjusts its strategy after some shoppers found prices at the Paris store too steep. Customers look at clothes in the first physical space of…
