New Scientist
We finally know why Stephen Hawking's black hole e...
Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein calculated the entropy of a black hole in the 1970s, but it too...
Suppressing wildfires is harming California’s gian...
California’s rare sequoias rely on high heat to disperse their seeds, and efforts to reduce the size...
How a total solar eclipse in 1919 left physicists ...
One total solar eclipse changed physics forever – and even to this day these celestial phenomena are...
Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution...
A popular idea links primates living on the ground with a tendency for right-handedness, but finding...
The mathematician who worked out how to time trave...
Mathematics suggested that time travel is physically possible – and Kurt Gödel proved it. Mathematic...
How mass bleaching has pushed the Great Barrier Re...
Diving at One Tree Island in one of the most highly protected parts of the Great Barrier Reef reveal...
The Biology of Kindness review: Living well and pr...
Can cultivating positive behaviours and tweaking our lifestyles lead to healthier, happier lives – e...
Could an MRI scan make prostate cancer screening m...
Combining PSA blood tests with MRI scans is making the screening less harmful, but it still should b...
Should we be worried about a bird flu pandemic in ...
One person in the US has contracted bird flu after being exposed to dairy cows that have the virus, ...
There are hints that dark energy may be getting we...
The standard model of cosmology says that the strength of dark energy should be constant, but tentat...
Why some songs make our heart swell and others giv...
Where in our body we feel the physical sensation of hearing music seems to depend on how surprising ...
Bisexual women expect to have an orgasm with women...
When asked to imagine a hypothetical sexual encounter, bisexual women anticipated that they would be...
Electric vehicles have lowered San Francisco's car...
A network of sensors stretching from San Francisco to Sonoma county’s vineyards shows that electric ...
Marine protected areas aren't helping fish populat...
Protected zones are meant to let adult fish populations recover from overfishing, but an analysis of...
Climate change can disturb the accuracy of trees’ ...
Trees use circadian genes to time photosynthesis and reproduction – but as temperatures rise, the cl...
Great apes threatened by mining for electric vehic...
A surge of mining in some African countries for materials used to make green energy technologies put...
Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, crac...
Amino acids and other molecules important to the origin of life can be enriched within networks of r...
Anxiety really has increased over the past 10 year...
The covid-19 pandemic saw a pronounced uptick in anxiety levels globally, but levels were rising in ...
