New Scientist
People with total colour blindness able to see red...
Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish r...
One of chemistry's most crucial concepts is in cri...
Our understanding of aromaticity, a concept that underpins life itself, has been thrown into chaos. ...
Sex between two males is extremely common in wild ...
Almost three-quarters of male macaques observed by scientists mounted other males, and the behaviour...
Summer 2022 heatwaves killed 61,000 people in Euro...
Last year's summer was the hottest season ever recorded in Europe, and a new estimate shows there we...
Gravitational waves spark hunt for cosmic strings ...
The discovery of low-level ripples throughout the universe called the gravitational wave background ...
Earth review: BBC tells terrifying story of our pl...
This epic TV series kicks off with Inferno, the story of our planet’s biggest mass extinction. Host ...
There’s a huge radioactive slab of volcanic granit...
A block of granite on the far side of the moon used to be the inside of a volcano – though researche...
On board RRS Sir David Attenborough as it prepares...
Alec Luhn joins the UK’s new state-of-the-art polar research ship for trials in the North Sea ahead ...
Male spider mites rip off females’ skin to be firs...
Due to fierce competition for mates, male spider mites guard juvenile females and forcibly remove th...
Netflix invents new green-screen filming method us...
A faster and more accurate method for putting footage of actors in different backgrounds allows dire...
Water mixed with nanoparticles can be carved into ...
Microfluidic chips have been made from water encased in nanoparticles and carved into precise shapes...
The past week was the hottest ever recorded on Ear...
The record for the hottest average global air temperature was broken three times this week, making t...
Robot injects drugs into back of eyeball more accu...
Retinal vein occlusion affects more than 16 million people worldwide and can eventually lead to blin...
Read an extract from Pod by Laline Paull
This intriguing extract is taken from Pod by Laline Paull, a novel told from the perspective of a sp...
Giving jaguars 'food poisoning' may stop them from...
Jaguar attacks on pets and farm animals are a common problem, but after developing a drug-induced st...
Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspec...
The author of the Women’s prize-shortlisted Pod reveals why she decided to write a story that initia...
Solar panels could be about to get much better at ...
Silicon-based solar cells have a theoretical efficiency limit of around 30 per cent, but adding a pe...
Breeding corn to boost yields has made it more vul...
As temperatures rise due to climate change, the huge amounts of corn grown in the US Midwest could b...
