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2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading s...
The second half of this year will almost certainly see the start of an El Niño phase that could lead...
NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hackin...
National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly a...
The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to ...
Should you really be drinking eight glasses of water a day? What about reaching for a sports drink a...
Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry ca...
An infestation of caterpillars can make an oak tree postpone when it opens its leaves next year by t...
Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fos...
With progress at COP climate meetings stalling, 57 countries took part in the first of a new series ...
Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my...
Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, reveals how a book that was ori...
Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
In this extract from Luminous, the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet a mysterious ro...
The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thou...
Uranus’s outermost two rings are surprisingly dissimilar, which opens up a mystery about the tiny mo...
An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reve...
The implications of quantum mechanics suggest reality isn't as solid as we think it is, but physicis...
'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy t...
A cryptocurrency that aims to avoid the disastrous energy consumption of bitcoin is actually using 1...
Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liv...
An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hop...
Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 1...
Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probab...
Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic contro...
Researchers in South Korea say they have made a major advance by turning on genes with an electromag...
The best new science fiction books of May 2026
New science fiction from big names including Ann Leckie, Alan Moore and Martha Wells are just some o...
The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer ...
Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthet...
We have figured out a new way to send messages int...
A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time,...
Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feel...
These unusual images were created by visual artist Daniel Regan by submerging Polaroid photographs i...
Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss ...
Feedback has learned that, according to reports, Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg t...
