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AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're ...
An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate ...
The everyday ways climate change is already making...
Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many small...
Was a famous supernova an alien invader from anoth...
Kepler's Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astro...
Chimps share 'building blocks of musical rhythm' w...
Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our com...
All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuff...
Our bodies emit a stream of low-energy photons, and now experiments in mice have revealed that this ...
Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off ...
With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shakier. It is a pity th...
Our favourite science fiction books of all time (t...
Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite ...
Europe increasingly vulnerable to hailstones the s...
Very large hail – hailstones more than 5 centimetres in diameter – poses a growing threat to Europe ...
Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and...
Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due ...
Record heat in 2023 and 2024 may just have been na...
Simulations suggest that an extraordinary jump in temperatures seen in 2023 and 2024 could simply be...
Major US cities like New York and Seattle are sink...
Groundwater extraction, plate tectonics and consequences of the last glacial period mean that most o...
The maths that tells us when a scientific discover...
When huge scientific discoveries are made, you may hear that they are “statistically significant” or...
Dementia cases are rising faster in China than the...
Cases of dementia doubled worldwide between 1990 and 2021, but more than quadrupled in China during ...
99.999 per cent of the deep seabed remains unexplo...
Deep-sea submersibles have been diving for decades, but records show that we have still only explore...
Science is a Pandora's box – but we should open it...
We are often warned of the consequences of knowing too much, but even when scientific ideas have the...
What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re ...
The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. No...
The birds upending our idea of shared parenting
Superb starlings appear to swap between parent and ‘nanny’ roles to help raise chicks over their lif...
Strange microbes give clues to the ancestor of all...
The origin of complex eukaryotic cells, of the type found in all plants and animals, is shrouded in ...
