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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 ...
Humans have pumped so much groundwater, we’ve shif...
Changes in the distribution of groundwater around the planet between 1993 and 2010 were enough to ma...
Wildfire smoke in North America could be creating ...
Particles from wildfire smoke may cause the formation of cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere far aw...
AIs will become useless if they keep learning from...
If language models such as ChatGPT are trained using outputs of other AIs, they will become heavily ...
Why 2023 is shaping up to be the hottest year on r...
Global weather conditions are showing extraordinary levels of heating this year. With this adding to...
Pay-monthly option for heat pumps could help Europ...
Customers in the UK, Germany and Italy will soon be able to replace gas boilers with heat pumps from...
Weird stink bug with forked horns and tusks discov...
A multicoloured stink bug found in Western Australia has forked horns for camouflage, mysterious pat...
