New Scientist
Much of North America may face electricity shortag...
Over the next several years, many regions of the US and Canada may struggle to ensure a reliable ele...
Vibrating pill may help with obesity by making you...
Swallowing a pill fitted with a vibrating motor resulted in pigs eating less, suggesting a possible ...
Reindeer can chew their food and sleep at the same...
The first study to capture brainwaves from reindeer shows that they take small naps throughout the d...
NFTs died a slow, painful death in 2023 as most ar...
Non-fungible tokens promised to revolutionise the concept of ownership using the blockchain technolo...
Dead spacecraft are seeding the upper atmosphere w...
The stratosphere seems to be full of aluminium particles and other metals that come from spacecraft ...
Better weather forecasts could help billions adapt...
A worldwide collaboration among meteorology services is trying to fill in the huge gaps in weather o...
2023 saw a cautious hope for Alzheimer's treatment...
The US approved lecanemab to slow cognitive decline among people with early Alzheimer's, but not eve...
Sweater that mimics polar bear fur may keep you wa...
An artificial fibre that mimics polar bear fur has been made into a sweater that is said to be as wa...
The microbes that give cheddar cheese its distinct...
Cheddar cheese's distinct but often subtle flavour comes down to interactions between different bact...
NASA sends cat video 31 million kilometres through...
The record for long-distance laser messaging has been broken with a high-resolution video of Taters ...
The best animal photos of 2023, from hyenas to sou...
Our favourite wildlife shots of the year feature an inquisitive hyena pup, a colourful sea slug and ...
Liquid magnet propellers could be a safer way to p...
Sharp metal propellers can harm wildlife, so an alternative made using ferrofluid could be a better ...
Girls’ brains aged unusually rapidly during the co...
Adolescents’ brains underwent accelerated ageing during the covid-19 pandemic, and the effect was mo...
Quantum physicists just got more certain about qua...
An extension of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which places limits on how precisely you can mea...
The science of why spending time in nature is just...
Getting outside to garden or walk in a park is good for your body – it’s exercise and you can get so...
Vegans who avoid ultra-processed food risk being p...
Two relatively recent dietary trends – veganism and concerns about highly processed foods – may be i...
The development of embryos may be less shaped by g...
The chemical reactions in cells appear to shape an embryo's development, possibly overriding the eff...
AI discovers new class of antibiotics to kill drug...
Artificial intelligence helped screen millions of chemical compounds to find a class of antibiotics ...
