New Scientist
Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’
Not long after the last world war, the historian William L. Shirer had this to say about the next wo...
Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by An...
In this terrifying extract from Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, the author lays out what w...
Embryos pause development when nutrients are low —...
Embryos seem to have a sensor that picks up when nutrients are scarce, prompting them to pause their...
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular struct...
A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells – a...
AI can spot parasites in stool samples to help dia...
About 1.5 billion people worldwide carry a risk of conditions including malnutrition because of para...
Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets
We can’t stir ordinary solids, but one research team now claims to have stirred an extraordinary qua...
How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the ...
The physicist Peter Higgs quietly revolutionised quantum field theory, then lived long enough to see...
Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may revea...
A small early-stage trial of the approach, which involves testing dozens of drug combinations on tho...
Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong...
Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can resul...
Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefa...
We don’t know what alien life might look like, but if other civilisations can colonise multiple worl...
Watch mini humanoid robots showing off their footb...
These soccer-playing robots can respond faster than ones trained in a standard way because they impr...
Some of our favourite songs make us sad, which may...
Our favourite sad songs seem to become less enjoyable when we try to take the emotion out of them
Post-surgery infections may mainly be caused by sk...
The skin microbiome may be a bigger cause of post-operative wound infections than bacteria contamina...
Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in...
To capture the clearest and most direct images of a “Wigner crystal”, a structure made entirely of e...
Fractal pattern identified at molecular scale in n...
An enzyme in a cyanobacterium can take the unusual form a triangle containing ever-smaller triangula...
How AI mathematicians might finally deliver human-...
Artificial intelligence is taking on some of the hardest problems in pure maths, arguably demonstrat...
Treating gum disease may ward off an irregular hea...
Inflamed gum tissue may allow bacteria in the mouth to enter the bloodstream, which could affect the...
Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing ran...
Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how randomness can shape a...
