New Scientist
COP28: How this year shattered nearly every modern...
The COP28 climate summit kicked off with a report on the many records broken in 2023, including unpr...
The battle to bring beavers back to Scotland
The reintroduction of beavers has already transformed parts of the Scottish landscape and provided m...
Cannabis probably doesn't help you sleep better
Many people take cannabis to help them sleep, but there is little evidence that the drug makes a dif...
Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long befo...
Ancient footprints found in Lesotho resemble those left by birds, but they were made around 60 milli...
Ancient life thrived after supercontinents trapped...
There is a surprisingly close link between the flow of nutrient-rich soil around the ancient world a...
Crystal-hunting DeepMind AI could help discover ne...
We know of around 48,000 inorganic crystal structures, which provide materials with a range of prope...
A single bitcoin transaction uses enough water to ...
The environmental impact of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is increasingly being scrutinised, du...
Six planets found orbiting a bright star 100 light...
The orbits of six planets around the star HD 110067 have been in a fixed pattern for billions of yea...
The wonder particle: How axions could solve more t...
Physicists are coming to realise that hypothetical particles called axions could explain not only da...
COP28: These are the key clean energy targets the ...
Momentum is building for an agreement at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai to triple renewable energ...
Key molecule for life may have formed on interstel...
Some scientists suspect that amino acids were transported to Earth by meteorites. A team has now fou...
Will carbon dioxide removal tech help or hinder cl...
Billions of dollars are pouring into the carbon dioxide removal industry, which aims to clean up emi...
How counting the true cost of cheap food could mak...
What we pay for food and other goods doesn’t reflect the environmental and social damage they cause....
The ancient origins of cannabis and our changing a...
Cannabis attitudes are undergoing a seismic shift but what do really know about the drug? Our three-...
Why some medical conditions are due to evolutionar...
Rather than assuming medical conditions happen because something in the body has “gone wrong”, consi...
Extreme rainfall is increasing even more than expe...
A study comparing weather records with climate model projections suggests that the latest models are...
Could the world finally agree to ditch fossil fuel...
Some countries are pushing for an agreement to phase out fossil fuels at the COP28 summit in Dubai, ...
A new way to estimate our maximum lifespan could h...
The maximum lifespan of mammalian species such as humans can be estimated from so-called epigenetic ...
