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Biodegradable plastic made from bamboo is strong a...
Bamboo is a highly renewable resource, and its cellulose fibres can be turned into a hard, mouldable...
Nobel prize for physics goes to trio behind quantu...
The 2025 Nobel prize in physics has gone to three researchers, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John ...
Galaxies fling out matter much more violently than...
An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the u...
General relativity might save some planets from de...
Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstei...
What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do an...
Can you escape your genetic inheritance, and do lifestyle changes actually make a difference? Daniel...
Shackleton knew his doomed ship wasn’t the stronge...
Endurance, the wooden ship that Ernest Shackleton took to Antarctica in 1915, wasn't built to withst...
Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on ...
The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sa...
Would a ban on genetic engineering of wildlife ham...
Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say th...
Your happiness in life may not be U-shaped - here'...
We thought happiness peaked at the beginning and end of life, but a study from Germany suggests a mo...
There is an odd streak in the universe – and we st...
Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an...
Exceptional star is the most pristine object known...
A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting ...
20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-c...
Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they ...
Kids as young as 4 innately use sorting algorithms...
It was previously thought that children younger than 7 couldn't find efficient solutions to complex ...
Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society s...
Sandra Knapp, chair of the judging panel for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, expl...
Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Mas...
In this passage from Our Brains, Our Selves, winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize,...
Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but re...
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Most of ...
Should we worry AI will create deadly bioweapons? ...
AI tools are being used to design proteins and even viruses, leading to fears these could eventually...
Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that l...
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growi...
