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The microbes that give cheddar cheese its distinct...
Cheddar cheese's distinct but often subtle flavour comes down to interactions between different bact...
NASA sends cat video 31 million kilometres through...
The record for long-distance laser messaging has been broken with a high-resolution video of Taters ...
The best animal photos of 2023, from hyenas to sou...
Our favourite wildlife shots of the year feature an inquisitive hyena pup, a colourful sea slug and ...
Liquid magnet propellers could be a safer way to p...
Sharp metal propellers can harm wildlife, so an alternative made using ferrofluid could be a better ...
Girls’ brains aged unusually rapidly during the co...
Adolescents’ brains underwent accelerated ageing during the covid-19 pandemic, and the effect was mo...
Quantum physicists just got more certain about qua...
An extension of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which places limits on how precisely you can mea...
The science of why spending time in nature is just...
Getting outside to garden or walk in a park is good for your body – it’s exercise and you can get so...
Vegans who avoid ultra-processed food risk being p...
Two relatively recent dietary trends – veganism and concerns about highly processed foods – may be i...
The development of embryos may be less shaped by g...
The chemical reactions in cells appear to shape an embryo's development, possibly overriding the eff...
AI discovers new class of antibiotics to kill drug...
Artificial intelligence helped screen millions of chemical compounds to find a class of antibiotics ...
Famous quantum experiment could be shrunk to the s...
A single, extremely cold atom could play the role of two slits in the classic double-slit experiment...
The laws of physics were broken in 2023 - by sperm...
New Scientist's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sperm break Isaac Newton...
Snowflakes fall to the ground according to a unive...
After analysing the way half a million snowflakes fell during mountain storms in Utah, researchers f...
Elon Musk spent 2023 shaping Twitter – sorry, X – ...
After taking control of Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk hired a new CEO to replace himself, all while con...
‘Clinical-grade’ AI stress detector doesn't work, ...
An AI-powered test that claimed to be “clinical grade” listens for signs of stress in people’s voice...
The best photos of the natural world in 2023
A fiery volcanic eruption, a flower preserved in amber and a ‘superbloom’ of wildflowers feature in ...
The 12 best science documentaries of 2023
From David Attenborough on dinosaurs to Michael J. Fox’s insight into living with Parkinson’s diseas...
Google wants to solve tricky physics problems with...
Quantum computers could become more useful now researchers at Google have designed an algorithm that...
