New Scientist
Just 3.5 minutes of intense activity a day may kee...
A few minutes a day of intense physical activity, which can come from everyday chores, is linked wit...
When to see Venus disappear behind the moon for it...
Venus will vanish behind the moon for about an hour in the morning of 9 November in Europe, western ...
Newfound moon around asteroid Dinkinesh is actuall...
When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh, it found an unexpected satellite – but...
Rising humidity has boosted storm potential in nor...
Over the past 40 years, rising humidity means the atmospheric conditions that trigger severe storms ...
Orcas sink another sailboat as a bewildering wave ...
Orcas have been damaging or sinking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar for the past few years and we d...
Will the cannabis of the future be brewed in big v...
We can now synthesise THC, CBD and other cannabinoids in bioreactors – these could be used to make n...
Drug that cuts breast cancer risk set for wider us...
An oral medicine called anastrozole has been approved by the UK's drug regulatory agency for reducin...
Rats squeak with happiness when they are with anot...
Rats emit a high-pitched squeak when around another rat, seemingly just to express a positive emotio...
Sweeteners: The bitter truth about low-calorie sug...
Low-calorie sweeteners such as aspartame have become common in all our diets. With concerns over the...
Can we smash together all of the asteroids to buil...
The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planet, so on this episode o...
Euclid space telescope releases its first stunning...
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has released five of its first science images, in...
The sun is smaller than we thought it was
Measurements of sound waves passing through the sun seem to confirm that it isn’t as big as we thoug...
Swarm of robots can make collective decisions by i...
A group of small, simple robots can make a collective decision by exchanging infrared light signals ...
Ocean heat could supply essentially endless clean ...
An old idea to use ocean heat to generate clean electricity has long failed to gain traction, but th...
Crabs evolved to live away from the ocean up to 17...
Unlike most other animal groups that left the sea behind, crabs have done it many times throughout t...
Twin ocean climate anomalies may trigger heat and ...
A strong El Niño in the Pacific Ocean is coinciding with a similarly strong climate pattern in the I...
Spine stimulator lets man with severe Parkinson's ...
A man with Parkinson's disease who fell up to six times a day can now walk several kilometres withou...
The surprising life and avoidable demise of Earth’...
The antiquity, stability and weird chemistry of oases have made them cradles of evolution, yet human...
