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El Niño was linked to famines in Europe in the ear...
A study of 160 European famines between 1500 and 1800 shows that El Niño weather events led to the o...
The best new popular science books of January 2026...
A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond,...
2026 will shed light on whether a little-known dru...
The US government is approving the drug leucovorin to address rising rates of autism, despite limite...
A strange kind of quantumness may be key to quantu...
Researchers at Google have used their Willow quantum computer to demonstrate that "quantum contextua...
The best new science fiction books of January 2026...
Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunde...
Ghostly particles might just break our understandi...
An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint ...
Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or di...
Did Sahelanthropus, which lived 7 million years ago, walk on two legs like a modern human? It's comp...
Gargantuan black hole may be a remnant from the da...
Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, ...
Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks ...
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Pl...
The challenges of writing from the perspective of ...
The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scient...
Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New...
Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA d...
A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of ...
Rare Saturn-sized rogue planet is first to have it...
Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of groun...
Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces...
Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so c...
The 3 things you should do this New Year to foster...
Olivia Remes, a mental health researcher at the University of Cambridge, says these are the three th...
Could 2026 be the year we start using quantum comp...
Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum...
Three supermassive black holes have been spotted m...
Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear...
The duo kite-skiing 4000 kilometres across Antarct...
An explorer and a glaciologist are kite-skiing across Antarctica with a ground-penetrating radar to ...
