Why winner of biggest prize in maths has decided to work on AI instead
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OpenAI announces solutions to 10 longstanding maths problems
style="text-indent: 2em; "Ten conundrums that stumped human mathematicians for years have been cracked by OpenAI's Astra model, continuing a hot streak of AI-driven breakthroughs that are shaking up the field
Will a new kind of AI that understands physical reality change the world again?
style="text-indent: 2em; "AI chatbots can describe reality in words, but don’t truly understand cause and effect in the real world. Now, a fresh kind of machine intelligence that does just that is emerging
Why sitting under a parasol is barely cooler than being in the sun
style="text-indent: 2em; "A beach umbrella might protect you from sunburn, but when it comes to keeping you cool, it makes surprisingly little difference
Are beef-liver or standard iron supplements better for boosting iron?
style="text-indent: 2em; "Beef-liver supplements are said to be more effective at raising iron levels than standard tablets, but is it true? Columnist Alice Klein looks into the evidence behind the claims
The best new science-fiction novels of August 2026
艾莉森·弗拉德 (Alison Flood) 表示，本月出版的科幻小说中将讲述法西斯帝国和致命的海怪
How Europe can make its landscapes more fire-resilient
矛盾的是，扑灭野火也让欧洲国家更容易遭受像本周法国和西班牙那样的大火。由于全球变暖也加剧了危险，一些专家呼吁改变策略
Climate change may help eliminate malaria from West and Central Africa
全球变暖可能会使非洲部分地区气候太热，导致携带疟疾的蚊子无法生存，但也可能将问题转移到受影响较小的地区
Thousands of people in China have had banned Alzheimer’s surgery
旨在增强阿尔茨海默病相关蛋白从大脑中清除的手术在中国已被禁止，但只是在数千人接受了该手术之后
Where to watch the next total solar eclipse anywhere in the world
8 月 12 日的日全食只有少数幸运儿才能看到，但世界各地都会发生日全食 - 无论您身在何处，以下都是接下来要注意的日全食
Read an extract from The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
在彼得·海勒 (Peter Heller) 为新科学家读书俱乐部撰写的小说《八月读物》的摘录中，我们介绍了飞行员希格 (Hig)，在世界上大部分人在超级流感大流行中丧生后，他独自生活
How I wrote The Dog Stars, the novel behind Ridley Scott’s new film
以超级流感大流行消灭了大部分人类后的一个空虚世界为背景，彼得·海勒的《狗星》——新科学家读书俱乐部的八月读物——将于本月晚些时候作为电影上映。他透露了他是如何写下这本书的
Why full-fledged quantum computers might always be five years away
为了预测我们何时会拥有一台真正有用的量子计算机，我们需要准确地知道它是什么。专栏作家 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 发现这比您想象的更难确定
The genome of a long-extinct ancient human is hiding within us
我们体内都拥有来自失落已久的“幽灵祖先”的 DNA 片段，通过将所有不同的片段组合在一起，我们也许能够重建他们的基因组
Jaguar makes epic 2100-kilometre journey across the Amazon
一只被称为加斯帕 (Gaspar) 的美洲虎穿越了亚马逊河流域 2100 公里，穿过农场和道路。但他为何出发执行此任务尚不清楚
An island has been waging war on rats. They think they’ve finally won
老鼠是世界各地岛屿野生动物的祸害。但爱尔兰海岸附近的一座岛屿正在展示如何成功占据上风
Matcha is under threat from climate change – can genomics save it?
气候变化正在影响传统日本抹茶的产量和风味，但研究其幼苗对热量的遗传耐受性可以为该作物的未来提供保障
