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Breakthrough in fiendishly hard puzzle has mathema...
Calculating Ramsey numbers is so difficult that one mathematician once said he'd rather fight off an...
Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall...
Aperiodic tiling, in which shapes can fit together to create infinite patterns that never repeat, ha...
3D-printed cake made from 7 different pastes and f...
A cake has been 3D printed using seven simple ingredients blended into pastes. The result was a laye...
Samples from asteroid Ryugu contain one of the bui...
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft brought back samples from Ryugu in 2020, and an analysis of a tiny portion...
Why we’re trapped in short-term thinking and how t...
Many of the most serious problems we face are the result of our tendency to focus on the present at ...
The microbiome inside the penis can be altered by ...
The penis plays host to a collection of bacteria known as the penile microbiome, and an analysis of ...
Bird flu may be making foxes and other animals beh...
Analysis of wild mammals infected with H5N1 bird flu in the US found that many had brain infections ...
Asteroids that speed up unexpectedly may be ‘dark ...
Some asteroids appear to accelerate in ways that can’t be accounted for by gravity, suggesting they ...
Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz cr...
Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed f...
Is someone lying to you? A lack of detail may give...
A lack of detail may be the best indication that someone is lying to you, according to an investigat...
Astonishing 3D footage of ants recorded using 54-c...
An imaging technique has allowed researchers to record detailed three-dimensional video of small cre...
Orcas in the North Pacific may be dying out due to...
Habitat and hunting protections have helped orca numbers rebound globally, but a group in the North ...
Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and cau...
In his final years, Stephen Hawking tackled the question of why the universe appears fine-tuned for ...
IPCC climate change report: Can we avoid 1.5°C of ...
The sixth synthesis report from the IPCC once again warns that without immediate and massive emissio...
IPCC reporting hiatus could imperil political acti...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change isn't due to produce its next report until 2027, which...
Spring equinox 2023: Why day and night aren't actu...
The 2023 vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere occurs on 20 March, but it’s not strictly true th...
Seven days to a fitter you: Read our top exercise ...
To celebrate the launch of our new Essential Guide all about exercise, New Scientist editors have se...
Algae-farming fish help coral reefs bounce back fr...
The presence of territorial farmerfish that look after algae gardens seems to help branching corals ...
