New Scientist
'The book is in the future, but everything is seed...
Helen Phillips, winner of the Climate Fiction prize for her novel Hum, on if stories can make a diff...
Millions of planets might form around supermassive...
Massive amounts of dust swirl around active nuclei at the centres of galaxies, and these discs could...
Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many...
Embryo organoids made from stem cells are enabling scientists to recreate early pregnancy in the lab...
Wealthy people with environmental ideals are the b...
Among people of high socioeconomic status, love for nature corresponds with a bigger environmental f...
NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of...
Three missions slated to launch this year will begin to search the lunar surface for a suitable base...
First quantum grandfather clock could probe where ...
Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping ...
We may finally know why gold stays so shiny
Gold is chemically inert and so doesn't tarnish, but exactly why had been a mystery
How a radical new view of life could reveal its or...
We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individu...
Space storms could switch signals and cause seriou...
Critical safety equipment in many train systems is vulnerable to disruption by space weather, which ...
Space storms could switch train signals and cause ...
Critical safety equipment in many train systems is vulnerable to disruption by space weather, which ...
Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese ...
Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a h...
Will lab-grown sperm let infertile men have childr...
Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now...
Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as...
Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur di...
Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a ...
A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physi...
Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes...
There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have final...
Why your brain needs plenty of “Aha!” moments
In the age of AI, instant answers to our questions are readily available. But columnist Helen Thomso...
Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected wate...
Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now...
Experimental mRNA vaccine may protect against mult...
Tests with rodents suggest an mRNA vaccine in development offers protection against three strains of...
