New Scientist
2025 was the year of online safety laws – but do t...
New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting chil...
High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodig...
It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns o...
Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall had intest...
Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of severa...
Two asteroids crashed around a nearby star, solvin...
A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and i...
Closure of US institute will do immense harm to cl...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling ...
Sitting by a window may improve blood sugar levels...
Our cells follow 24-hour circadian rhythms that regulate our blood sugar levels and are heavily infl...
Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of...
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any ot...
Chronic fatigue syndrome seems to have a very stro...
The largest study so far into the genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis...
Cosmology’s Great Debate began a century ago – and...
Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosm...
Crash clock says satellites in orbit are three day...
Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a...
Saturn's rings form a giant dusty doughnut encircl...
The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show...
Your period may make sport injuries more severe
Professional footballer players who became injured while on their period took longer to recover than...
The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every ...
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endanger...
How green hydrogen could power industries from ste...
Many industries are eyeing up hydrogen as a source of clean energy, but with supplies of green hydro...
Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut ...
Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes ...
Mars may once have had a much larger moon
There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon...
Qubits break quantum limit to encode information f...
Controlling qubits with quantum superpositions allows them to dramatically violate a fundamental lim...
New antibiotic could stave off drug-resistant gono...
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the microbe responsible for gonorrhoea, is developing resistance to most anti...
