Lamarck's Signature by Edward Steele, Robyn Lindley and Robert Blanden, Allen & Unwin, £7.99, ISBN 1864487968 BEFORE we knew about Mendelian inheritance of genes, let alone DNA, there was a debate about how we come to look like our parents. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck had a bright idea: he suggested that we inherited the characteristics …| New Scientist
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An experimental update to Ethereum, the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency, has led to a dramatic reduction in the energy used to secure the currency and verify transactions| New Scientist
The White Tower, in the Swiss village of Mulegns, stands 30 metres tall and comprises 124 3D-printed elements| New Scientist
An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives, redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X| New Scientist
In a survey of thousands of people, respondents underestimated the massive difference between the carbon footprints of the wealthiest and poorest individuals – and that’s bad for climate policy| New Scientist
Previous estimates have suggested that more than half of people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms, but now a review of the evidence suggests this isn't the case, at least for short-term use.| New Scientist
ChatGPT-written exam submissions for a psychology degree mostly went undetected and tended to get better marks than real students’ work| New Scientist
Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us build an entirely new type of computer| New Scientist
Volunteers who maintain the standard of content on Reddit’s forums do 466 hours of work every day – labour that would cost 2.8 per cent of the firm’s revenue| New Scientist
A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40,000 years old| New Scientist
Poaching eggs Polar bears are ditching seafood in favour of scrambled eggs, as the heat rises in the Arctic melting the sea ice. A changing coastline has made it harder for the predators to catch the seals they favour and is pushing them towards poaching goose eggs. This is according to a team led by …| New Scientist
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Contrary to common expectation, intelligence does not always predict financial wellbeing, and neither does it protect people from financial difficulty| New Scientist
A guiding principle of logic exhorting us to keep things as simple as possible.| New Scientist
Among primates brain size corresponds to social group size and Dunbar's number extrapolates this in humans to have a natural group size of about 150| New Scientist
