New Scientist
George R. R. Martin finally finishes… a physics pa...
Feedback digs into the first peer-reviewed paper from the Game of Thrones author, and concludes that...
Enigmatic people who took over Europe millennia ag...
A huge study of ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Yamna, who spread across Eurasia around 5000 ...
New type of brain cell may tell us when to stop ea...
Mice have neurons that can be controlled to stop them eating - and people probably have them too
Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known mo...
A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as ...
Indoor cannabis farms in US use more energy than a...
Two-thirds of US cannabis is grown indoors, requiring lights and temperature control that produce a ...
Layered graphene has revealed a strange new kind o...
The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temper...
What the new field of women’s neuroscience reveals...
Neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur Emilė Radytė is using brain stimulation to explore how things lik...
Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the firs...
A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read...
Is cleaner air accelerating global warming more th...
Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in t...
Arctic geoengineering project shut down over dange...
The non-profit Arctic Ice Project was experimenting with using silica beads to slow ice melt in the ...
Grand canyons formed on moon in minutes after colo...
Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by c...
The shocking discovery that our gut microbiome dri...
A new understanding of our relationship with our "friendly" gut microbes shows they actually have a ...
Spiders can run just as fast after two of their le...
When spiders self-amputate two of their legs, they quickly adjust their running gait so they can ret...
Laughing gas could be picked up by a breathalyser
Many countries have made it illegal to possess nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, and research now show...
The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still ch...
Emmy Noether was hailed as a mathematical genius in her own time. And her theorem on symmetry is sti...
Bonobos can tell when they know something you don'...
Recognising that someone lacks information you possess is key for effective communication and cooper...
January 2025 sets surprise record as hottest ever ...
Meteorologists expected global temperatures to start falling after record highs in 2023 and 2024 – i...
Rice variant slashes planet-warming methane emissi...
Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much le...
