New Scientist
Florida floods: How much rain has fallen and could...
Heavy rain has deluged parts of Florida, triggering the total shutdown of Fort Lauderdale airport. H...
Swapping table salt for a potassium alternative cu...
A study in care homes found that preparing meals with potassium-enriched salt, instead of regular sa...
Tadpole embryos grow strong jaws if they sense shr...
Mexican spadefoot toad embryos that sense lots of shrimp in the water before they are born grow bigg...
Some anacondas can perform a strange S-shaped leap...
A mathematical model based on observing yellow anacondas in the lab shows that if they are light and...
Wine experts’ unique nasal microbiome may affect t...
People who work in the wine industry may have fewer and less diverse bacteria in their nose compared...
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...
