New Scientist
Your essential guide to the many breathtaking wond...
An abridged inventory of everything there is in the universe – from rogue planets and exomoons to su...
Detailed image of supermassive black hole shows it...
An image of a black hole called M87* shows never-before-seen details of matter falling into its cent...
How ultra-processed food harms your health and how...
Ultra-processed foods contain artificial ingredients that impact our health in ways that we are only...
Can we use salt to lock away carbon for thousands ...
Preserving ‘carbon crops’ with salt and storing them in dry landfill sites to stop them decomposing ...
Cryptocurrency Ethereum has slashed its energy use...
An experimental update to Ethereum, the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency, has led to a dramatic...
Tiny yeast-filled robots help brew beer quickly an...
Millimetre-sized robots made of iron oxide and packed with yeast speed up fermentation of beer by sw...
Assassin bugs cover themselves in sticky plant res...
By covering themselves in resin from spinifex grass, Australian assassin bugs improve their chances ...
Wildfires have drastically reduced lynx habitat in...
Twenty years of wildfires have cut down habitats and prey crucial to lynx in the north-west US, slas...
Japanese Hakuto-R spacecraft seems to have crash-l...
A lunar lander from Japanese company ispace attempted to become the first craft from a private firm ...
What we can do to let the UK’s tamed rivers flow w...
In the UK, 97 per cent of rivers have been modified, blocked and otherwise corralled to suit our nee...
Was DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin really a victim ...
It is widely thought that Rosalind Franklin was a victim whose work on DNA was stolen, but a letter ...
Melatonin gummies in the US contain far more of ho...
An analysis of melatonin gummies sold in the US showed that the majority were inaccurately labelled,...
Rats fooled by optical illusion may shed light on ...
The Asahi illusion tricks us into believing it is brighter than it really is, to the extent that our...
Japanese firm ispace is about to land a private sp...
The Hakuto-R lander from Japanese firm ispace is due to touch down on the surface of the moon at 4:4...
Edible computer chips could control digestible dru...
Researchers are working on edible computer chips to control robots that can operate inside the human...
JWST has spotted the most distant galaxy cluster e...
The James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen, at 30 billion li...
Wood transistor could let us embed electronics in ...
An electrochemical transistor made from balsa wood opens up the possibility of embedding sensors and...
Lack of neuron ‘pruning’ may be behind many brain-...
Brain scans show adolescents with more psychiatric symptoms have undergone less “pruning”, when unne...
