New Scientist
Spotting the way octopus stripes vary could help u...
The configuration of brown and white stripes in pygmy zebra octopuses (Octopus chierchiae) varies be...
Legal marijuana in the US may be less potent than ...
Tests of marijuana sold legally in Colorado found that most products contained significantly less TH...
Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes ...
A study of an ancient bone from Spain with a strange pattern of notches hints that it was used by ea...
Incandescent lamp could save energy by recycling i...
A lighting device that reuses its infrared light to conserve energy is as efficient as some LED ligh...
Skates evolved their undulating wings thanks to ge...
The front fins of skates emerge from their heads as huge wings and now we know how they can develop ...
Male orchid bees craft unique perfumes from flower...
The function of the mysterious perfume blended by male orchid bees from the flowers they visit has f...
Graphene shows record-breaking magnetic properties...
Graphene can change its electrical resistance in response to a magnetic field quicker than other mat...
The shocking decline of Earth’s microbiome – and h...
Bacteria, fungi and other microbes, which are vital to life on Earth, were long thought impervious t...
A macroscopic amount of matter has been put in a q...
Researchers have put a sapphire crystal containing quadrillions of atoms into a superposition of qua...
Keto diet may treat epilepsy by changing the gut m...
Mice that received gut microbes from children with epilepsy on the ketogenic diet were protected fro...
Emissions from global electricity generation may h...
Wind and solar reached a record 12 per cent of global electricity generation in 2022 - and look set ...
Seahorses have a super strong gulp thanks to two s...
Elastic tendons let seahorses suck in water around eight times faster than they could using muscle p...
Sandgrouse have a special trick for carrying water...
High-resolution imagery has revealed that sandgrouse have tightly-coiled filaments in their feathers...
An unhackable quantum internet is being built in N...
Entangled photons of light have been sent through a loop of conventional optical fibre under the noi...
The JUICE mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moons...
Jupiter’s icy moons are thought to host buried oceans that could have the right conditions for life,...
Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts b...
There is probably a plane of knowledge beyond the grasp of human minds. But mathematician and physic...
Shiveluch volcano eruption in Russia smothers near...
The eruption of the Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on 11 April sent plumes o...
Exoplanets with a permanent day side may sometimes...
Some planets outside our solar system are thought to be tidally locked, with one side always facing ...
