9 surprising things we learned at New Scientist Live 2022

New Scientist Live, the world's greatest festival of science, finished yesterday after three days of mind-expanding talks and exhilarating experiences. Thousands of people attended each day, meeting robots, trying cutting-edge virtual reality set-ups and learning everything from whether science can save humanity to the design flaws in the human body. Most importantly, we had an amazing time. Here are nine incredible things we learned there. We heard Gillian Forrester explain that we may be able to shed light on the longstanding mystery of how humans evolved the ability to speak by studying these great apes.