Flora Graham
New Scientist
United Kingdom
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Life-changing implants reveal intricacy on a chip
A close-up view of tiny devices reveals the beautiful complexity that could restore brain function and repair nerves → Read More
Dead star leaves behind Jupiter's Ghost
Not every star ends with a bang. A beautiful post-mortem portrait reveals a cloud of gas surrounding a jewel-like white dwarf → Read More
Cancer-warped skeletons imagined for building design
The extreme deformities caused by bone cancer push the human body to its limits. Our amazing ability to adapt could inspire future architecture → Read More
Dinosaur-killing impact recreated in mini BBQ
(Image: University of Exeter) The space rock that struck Mexico's Yucatan peninsula at the end of the Cretaceous period seems to have ultimately wiped out the dinosaurs. But did it ignite global firestorms that destroyed almost everything at unthinkable speed? A bit of playing with fire shows that the reality may be more complicated than we thought. The small-scale inferno pictured is created by… → Read More
Quiet cuttlefish robot dives through underwater forest
By copying the undulating swimming skills of cuttlefish, a low-key underwater robot is able to tackle obstacles in its way → Read More
Split-colour bird is half male, half female
What's red and white and feathered all over? A northern cardinal with the plumage of both a male and female → Read More
Peer inside the head of a giant prehistoric groundhog
A virtual replica of the first complete skull of a mysterious mammal is revealing the structure of its bizarre bones → Read More
Moving objects make hummingbirds wobble mid-flight
Immersing hummingbirds in virtual reality is revealing that they are surprisingly sensitive to a moving view → Read More
Giant galactic gas 'blow out' seen for the first time
A gigantic rainbow jet has been glimpsed in the act of being booted out of a galactic nursery by the forming stars → Read More
Bizarre brains highlight missing organ mystery
A photographer's obsession with a collection of abnormal brains in a storage closet, some of which are mysteriously missing, is documented in a book → Read More
Meet the most complete stegosaurus ever found
A stunning stegosaurus the size of an SUV could soon steal the limelight from the famous diplodocus at the entrance of London's Natural History Museum → Read More
Invisible hissing doughnut is Earth's radiation shield
Hissing static just beneath Earth's protective plasma layer has been found to limit how close radiation can get to the planet → Read More
Starfish made of feather-light foam wins photo prize
With its spindly neon tendrils, a false-coloured image of graphene foam, stripped of its skeleton, has won first prize in an annual engineering photo → Read More
Polar bear dives into Arctic sea near explorers' grave
An exhibition at the British Library displays artefacts from explorer John Franklin's doomed quest for the North-West Passage → Read More
Epic space collision rips away galactic gas
A rainbow streak across deep space could reveal why stars stop forming in galaxy clusters → Read More
Gallery - The world's most notorious acid bath murderers - Image 1 - New Scientist
1897: Adolph Luetgert, "The Sausage King of Chicago" Adolph Louis Luetgert was a German immigrant who established the highly successful A. L. Luetgert Sausage & Packing Company in Chicago in 1879. His marriage to Louisa Bicknese was an unhappy one, filled with rows and rumours of domestic violence. Then on 1 May 1897, she mysteriously disappeared. Rumours circulated that Luetgert had killed his… → Read More
Baby chick spycam fools penguin parents
It's fluffy, has four wheels and can make an Emperor sing. A baby bird spycam is helping researchers get close to shy penguins → Read More
Earth's blue beauty glimpsed from far side of the moon
China's Chang'e 5-T1 spacecraft captures a stunning image of our planet hanging in space next to the looming moon as it heads back home → Read More
African baby turtles start life with a 24-hour swimathon
Loggerhead turtles from Cape Verde complete an epic sprint before they turn into chilled-out turtle surfers, like the ones in Finding Nemo → Read More
Churning galaxy boasts a fiery halo of baby stars
The suburbs are where it's at – a baby boom on the outskirts of a distant galaxy is setting its swirly arms aflame → Read More