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New Discoveries in Physics and Biology
Recent scientific breakthroughs include new insights into chemical bonds, retinal function after death, thermodynamics, chromosome errors, and ancient animal behavior. These findings could have significant implications for future research and medical applications.
Coverage timeline — 5 articles
New Scientist
Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a feature of nervous systems that we see in our own right- and left-handedness
2026-07-09 09:32 UTC
New Scientist
Egg cells missing a key protein may be more likely to end up with the wrong number of chromosomes, but an mRNA injection that helps the cells make the protein reduces the problem
2026-07-09 11:00 UTC
New Scientist
The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “gauge theory”, which already helps us understand quantum fields
2026-07-09 13:00 UTC
New Scientist
Perfusing donor human retinas with blood and oxygen meant they continued to respond to light for up to 10 hours after death, marking a significant step towards eye transplants that restore vision
2026-07-09 15:00 UTC
New Scientist
An experiment with a charged molecule of bismuth and carbon reveals how effects from Albert Einstein’s special relativity reshape the standard understanding of chemical bonds
2026-07-09 18:00 UTC