New Scientist
Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?
We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are ...
Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help...
Carbon credits bought by companies to offset their emissions really have reduced deforestation, but ...
PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a ...
PCOS will now be known as PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), and for Alice Klein, who ...
A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in ...
Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come...
The story of the first human tool: the humble cont...
An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may hav...
Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy de...
A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts w...
Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I...
The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João ...
Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only min...
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest hig...
Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for...
Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel...
A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the...
If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers ...
US government releases huge batch of UFO files
The US Department of Defense has released hundreds of documents and photographs related to UFOs, som...
Doubling their genomes may have helped plants surv...
Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extr...
Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone ...
A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kil...
There’s a been a sudden increase in the rate of se...
Satellite measurements show that in the early 2010s sea level rise suddenly accelerated to a rate of...
Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need ...
How important is thinking about your breath for calming yourself down? We now know that slow breathi...
Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious s...
An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders...
The mathematician who doesn’t exist
A secret society of French mathematicians has been revolutionising the field of mathematics under a ...
Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style p...
The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cr...
