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Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than th...
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African fore...
Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of da...
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks ...
Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: ...
New Scientist Book Club members share their thoughts on our November read, Grace Chan's Every Versio...
Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M...
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Iain M. Banks's classic sci-fi novel The Player of ...
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astoundi...
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player o...
Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in t...
Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early un...
Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic...
Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to D...
Physicists have worked out a universal law for how...
Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many...
Emergency response needed to prevent climate break...
Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London,...
Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus ...
Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the...
Deadly fungus makes sick frogs jump far, possibly ...
Chytrid fungus is a scourge to global amphibian populations, but before it kills some frogs, it can ...
Monthly injection could replace daily steroid pill...
Daily steroid pills are often necessary for severe cases of asthma, but they raise the risk of sever...
Easter Island statues may have been built by small...
Mapping of the main quarry on Easter Island where giant statues were carved has uncovered evidence t...
Cold-water swimming has benefits for the brain as ...
There is a growing body of research on the physical benefits of going for a dip in chilly water, but...
The science of swimming trunks – including tightne...
Feedback dives into a new piece of research on the merits of swimming briefs or looser swimming shor...
Pandas use tools to scratch thanks to a strange ev...
Captive giant pandas have been seen breaking off twigs and bamboo pieces to scratch hard-to-reach sp...
A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping c...
New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and...
Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two spe...
Scientists have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move ...
