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What is the June solstice and what causes it?
21 June is the summer solstice or longest day in the northern hemisphere and winter solstice or shor...
Chimpanzees can prepare for alternative futures
Our closest relatives, chimpanzees, seem able to think ahead and prepare for two possible futures – ...
Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many b...
Orcas have been documented damaging or sinking boats off the coast of Spain and Portugal, but these ...
Quantum computers could slash the energy use of cr...
Mining cryptocurrencies like bitcoin could be done using quantum computers, cutting their electricit...
Tiny robot could stop bleeding from inside the bod...
A centimetre-sized robot with a soft body and metallic scales inspired by pangolins can stop bleedin...
Farming destroyed UK rivers to meet food demand – ...
Rivers are awash with manure, fertiliser and pesticides from farming. This is more polluting even th...
Scientists want to give robots hands made from liv...
Researchers attached pill bugs and chitons to a robot arm to show how creatures might work with mach...
UK’s first deep geothermal project for 36 years op...
A 5-kilometre-deep well is supplying heat to the Eden Project visitor attraction in Cornwall, but de...
Ancient reptiles' long necks made them vulnerable ...
Extremely long necks probably helped ancient marine reptiles ambush prey in murky waters, but also m...
Solar-powered fuel cell recycles plastic waste and...
By combining a solar fuel cell that converts carbon dioxide into fuel with a plastic recycling syste...
How a radical redefinition of life could help us f...
Sara Imari Walker, who developed Assembly Theory with chemist Lee Cronin, explains how the theory's ...
UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marin...
Waters around the UK and Ireland have been classified as experiencing a category 4 (extreme) marine ...
Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature ...
Two independent teams of researchers found that putting the silvery metal scandium under extreme pre...
A star has been eating an orbiting planet for 85 y...
A distant star called FU Orionis has been shining extraordinarily bright for the last 85 years, and ...
UK river pollution monitoring is 50 years out of d...
Levels of pollutants in the UK's rivers are tested by random sampling, a method that experts say is ...
How you can help save Britain's rivers by becoming...
As part of New Scientist's Save Britain's Rivers campaign, we've rounded up the best citizen science...
Brain activity 'barcodes' may be linked to specifi...
Neural recordings from chickadees have found unique patterns of activity that occur when they hide f...
Male flies are better at mating after fighting off...
Lab-reared insects sometimes struggle to compete for mates with wild males, but an encounter with a ...
