New Scientist
World's largest tree is also among the oldest livi...
DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their root...
One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written w...
Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT's rel...
Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corn...
Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter phot...
The best new science fiction books of November 202...
From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has ple...
Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as Ca...
In support of their AI ambitions, tech companies are rapidly expanding US data centres, and this gro...
War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK peopl...
People conceived during the UK's 1940s and 50s sugar rationing have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes ...
Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishin...
Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economi...
A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones fr...
Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century ce...
Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibr...
An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone's spea...
Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete ...
The infinite monkey theorem states that illiterate primates could write great literature with enough...
Simple fix could make the census more accurate but...
The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information priva...
Simple fix could make US census more accurate but ...
The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information priva...
Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman...
The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to inc...
Is personalised nutrition better than one-size-fit...
Our metabolism's response to food is highly idiosyncratic and there are hints that tailoring our die...
AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica...
Scientists used AI to transform tourist photos into a 3D digital map of Antarctic penguin colonies –...
How to cut through the latest nutritional fads
From the benefits of fermented foods to diets that promise a better hormone balance, there is a conf...
The surprisingly simple supernutrient with far-rea...
Most ingredients touted as the key to better health fail to live up to the hype but fibre bucks this...
Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back ...
A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old - and isn't that different from some m...
