New Scientist
Patch with octopus-like suckers helps drugs penetr...
A rubbery patch studded with suction cups that imitate the suckers on octopus limbs can make drugs p...
Plagues that shook the Roman Empire linked to cold...
A study reconstructing the climate of Italy during the Roman Empire based on marine sediments shows ...
Watch a robot with living muscles walk through wat...
A tiny, biohybrid robot moves by contracting lab-grown muscle tissue in its legs – but it needs help...
Fast-growing engineered cow cells could slash cost...
Engineered cells that make the substances they need to grow could dramatically reduce the cost of cu...
The chemist who told us to put salt in our tea exp...
After causing an international incident by suggesting that adding salt to your cup of tea will impro...
Learning piano triggers complex changes to your br...
Learning to play the piano causes various changes in activity in areas of the brain involved in memo...
Writing things down may help you remember informat...
Writing words down increases connectivity linked to memory and learning between different areas of t...
Newly discovered smoking stars emit huge clouds an...
A never-before-seen type of star that puffs out enormous clouds challenges our ideas of what happens...
Japan's rolling and hopping lunar rovers send back...
Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) didn’t last long after it landed on the surface o...
Mysterious black hole jets may be the source of po...
Observations of the microquasar SS 433 provide clues to how these small black holes accelerate elect...
Silicon Valley’s top AI models are terrible at reb...
Rebus puzzles provide wordplay challenges involving both images and text, and they can confound Sili...
Robot dinosaur tests surprising theory about the e...
Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle prey into fleeing f...
Tiny marsupials sacrifice sleep for sex during the...
Antechinus males only live for one breeding season, so they give up 3 hours of sleep a night during ...
Owls may actually be able to turn their heads a fu...
Owls are famously good at rotating their heads, but now anatomical findings suggest they really coul...
Pancake-like comets may be made by whirling clouds...
We keep finding pancake-like objects in the solar system and it could be because they form in a cert...
Exquisite Jurassic fossils reveal cannibalism in a...
Three fossils of Pachycormus fish from the dinosaur era feature smaller members of the same species ...
Wearable device monitors tumour size and displays ...
A wearable device that sticks to the skin can constantly measure the size of certain tumours and wir...
Robot avatar lets people see and feel things remot...
A person wearing a VR headset and haptic feedback gloves can control the iCub 3 robot and experience...
