New Scientist
Do routine check-ups actually improve our health?
A massive study is claimed to show that regular primary care health checks can prevent multiple dise...
Chickpeas grown in moon dust for the first time
With a little help from a fungus and earthworms, chickpeas have been grown in lunar soil. It is a st...
Stunning slo-mo videos show how insects survive ra...
A raindrop can weigh 40 times as much as a water strider. So how does the insect deal with rain when...
How measles can do long-lasting damage to children...
Low vaccination rates have led to measles outbreaks in several countries, but many people are unawar...
A legendary cosmologist on how to find a deeper th...
Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles, who helped create our model of how the universe evolved, discusses da...
AI costs too much to automate vision-related jobs ...
Today’s AI computer vision costs are too steep for most US firms to consider replacing human workers...
Strange 'one-dimensional gas' created by trapping ...
A row of gaseous krypton atoms has been trapped inside a carbon nanotube, allowing researchers to be...
Missing bullets can be identified by ricochet resi...
Investigating gun crime is challenging if bullets have been removed from the scene – a tool that can...
Endometriosis takes 6 years to be diagnosed due to...
Endometriosis takes an average of 6.6 years to be diagnosed worldwide, with one study finding it can...
Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-o...
Chemical analysis of rocks found in South Africa shows that ancient microorganisms sustained themsel...
Megalodon was nothing like a giant great white sha...
We have no complete skeleton of the ancient megalodon shark, but new evidence points to it being mor...
Japan’s SLIM spacecraft landed on the moon – but i...
The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft touched down on the lunar surface intact, ...
What does Ukraine’s million-drone army mean for th...
In 2024, Ukraine will have more drones than soldiers in its armed forces, and the aerial vehicles an...
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...
