New Scientist
How fall of Bronze Age civilisations holds lessons...
The fall of a couple of Mediterranean civilisations 3000 years ago had destabilising effects on thei...
Mild haemophilia may add an extra year or two to s...
UK figures suggest that when the condition is well treated, it can reduce people’s risk of heart dis...
Beeping shoes help people with Parkinson's disease...
A sensor that clips onto shoes and alerts wearers when they walk with a strong stride improved stabi...
How wild primates adapt to living with disabilitie...
For primates, being born with a missing limb or experiencing a major injury isn’t necessarily disabl...
The tightest knot ever made is a tied-up chain 54 ...
A tiny molecular chain of gold, carbon and phosphorus has tied itself up into the smallest and tight...
Why the Peregrine moon lander was burned up in Ear...
An attempt to land on the moon has ended in failure – Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander was brought back...
Japan’s SLIM lander is about to touch down on the ...
The Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon is scheduled to land on the lunar surface on 19 Jan...
Mysterious object may be the heaviest neutron star...
A dense object about 40,000 light years away is heavier than any neutron star seen before, but light...
Watch a plant-inspired robot grow towards light li...
FiloBot has a cylindrical body made of coiled plastic filament and can grow guided by light and grav...
Mounting evidence shows daily multivitamins keep y...
Taking a standard multivitamin supplement appears to reduce cognitive decline that happens with agei...
Mysterious patch on Mars appears to be enormous lu...
A large formation near the equator of Mars is now thought to be made of water ice, which could indic...
Could DARPA's enigmatic X-65 plane revolutionise a...
The US military will test an aircraft that flies without mechanical control surfaces like flaps and ...
Humans first reached China thousands of years earl...
A fresh look at an archaeological site in northern China that was excavated in the 1960s has confirm...
New fiery doughnut image is our most detailed glim...
The black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 has been imaged at higher resolution and is now revealed ...
Seabed trawling found to be a major source of glob...
Bottom trawling, a controversial and destructive fishing technique, releases large amounts of carbon...
We finally know how tardigrades can survive extrem...
When tardigrades encounter harsh environments, high levels of free radicals in their cells trigger t...
Life expectancy gap between men and women is closi...
The life expectancies of men around the world are catching up with women's longer lifespans, possibl...
Robotic dodecahedron searches the deep sea for new...
A robotic dodecahedron that can collect tissue samples from deep-sea animals for later genetic analy...
