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X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less p...
A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make takin...
Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always la...
With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests ...
The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with g...
Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Over...
Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bra...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-...
Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set...
In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Boo...
Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia,...
The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world ...
Mystery fireball spotted plummeting to Earth over ...
There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US –...
Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ...
DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistanc...
Deep sleep seems to lead to more eureka moments
After a nap, people who entered the second stage of sleep were more likely to spot a solution to a p...
These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth...
Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks –...
Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for clima...
With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape ro...
Extreme winter weather isn’t down to a wavier jet ...
The recent erratic behaviour of the polar jet stream isn't out of the ordinary, researchers have fou...
What sleep scientists recommend doing to fall asle...
Helping yourself get to sleep isn’t just about avoiding screens before bedtime. From cognitive shuff...
Independent estimate of Gaza deaths is higher than...
A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 pe...
Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as ...
A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have be...
Gastric bypass surgery may cut the risk of bowel c...
Weight-loss surgery seems to lower the risk of colorectal cancer by changing where bile acids enter ...
How might society react to babies with two genetic...
Mice created using genetic material from two sperm cells have gone on to have offspring off their ow...
Cancer cells steal mitochondria from nerve cells t...
Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, w...
