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Fungus offers a new way to cut down on methane in ...
Soil fungi can make a compound that disrupts how cow stomachs produce the potent greenhouse gas meth...
Cryptography trick could make AI algorithms more e...
Encryption would normally be expected to slow down computation, but applying the tools of cryptograp...
US military wants to grow giant biological structu...
DARPA scientists are exploring ways to grow massive biological objects, such as telescope antennas o...
The alarming rise of colorectal cancer diagnoses i...
Colorectal cancers will soon be the number one cause of cancer death among people under 50. Could ch...
The best new science fiction books of March 2025
John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether it’s time travel or ...
Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronz...
The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the...
Does milk and other dairy really reduce the risk o...
Consuming dairy is increasingly being linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer, but the true rela...
Blue Ghost spacecraft makes second-ever commercial...
The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity tha...
US scientists rebuild climate risk map deleted fro...
When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency removed a map of future climate hazards from its web...
Electronic tongue could let you taste cake in virt...
Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that ca...
Is OpenAI hitting a wall with huge and expensive G...
Some researchers think OpenAI's giant and expensive latest model is a sign that tech companies canno...
Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new W...
Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s extraordinary new show, Deepstaria, is inspired by the marine life of...
Stone tools help monkeys thrive in hostile habitat...
Golden-bellied capuchins are usually found in humid forests, but some populations appear to have ada...
Shock discovery tears up the rules of time and spa...
Time and memory space are the two main constraints on what we can compute, and understanding their r...
NASA set to launch SPHEREx space telescope to scan...
NASA's newest space telescope will scan the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths to he...
Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fictio...
In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we get an insight ...
New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as...
Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his stor...
We now know how much global warming has delayed th...
Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pa...
