New Scientist
How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Ea...
Earth is lagging behind other worlds with its single moon, so on this episode of Dead Planets Societ...
Marine fungus can break down floating plastic poll...
The plastic-digesting capabilities of the fungus Parengyodontium album could be harnessed to degrade...
Ozempic and Wegovy linked to lower risk of alcohol...
People taking semaglutide, also called Ozempic and Wegovy, either for weight loss or type 2 diabetes...
The first stars in the universe could have formed ...
Huge stars might have formed in the first million years of the universe if there was enough matter c...
How dodo de-extinction is helping rescue the extra...
The same genetic tools being used to resurrect the woolly mammoth and dodo could help many other vul...
Elephants seem to invent names for each other
An analysis of their vocalisations suggests that African savannah elephants invent names for each ot...
The largest volcanoes on Mars have frosted tips du...
We know that there is ice at the Martian poles and underground, but until now it wasn't clear it cou...
A surprisingly quick enzyme could shift our unders...
Biological processes such as DNA replication or cellular structure formation may become more accurat...
Bacteria evolve to get better at evolving in lab e...
When bacteria were put in alternating environments, some became better at evolving to cope with the ...
Cosmic cloud exposed Earth to interstellar space 3...
The protective bubble around the sun retreated dramatically after colliding with a freezing interste...
The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an in...
The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally u...
Tiny great ape fossils identified as new species f...
A kneecap and two teeth found in Germany have been identified as belonging to a new species of ape f...
Starliner and Starship launches propel space indus...
SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on the same day that Boeing’s Starliner craft made ...
What is a heat dome and are they getting worse wit...
Mexico and the southern US have seen extreme temperatures due to a heat dome, a weather phenomenon t...
Writers accept lower pay when they use AI to help ...
When writers are allowed to get help from ChatGPT, they accept lower pay, fuelling fears that AI wil...
Physicists want to drill a 5-kilometre-deep hole o...
Going deep into lunar rock could give us an opportunity to see if protons can decay into something e...
How to wrap your mind around the real multiverse
Fictional portrayals of parallel universes are fun to explore, but the scientific view of the multiv...
Male lemurs grow bigger testicles when there are o...
Dominant male Verreaux’s sifakas always have the largest testicles in their group to make the most s...
