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Fertiliser can be made from human urine in just a ...
Urine is rich in nitrogen, which is important for plant growth, and now scientists have found an eff...
Why your chronotype is key to figuring out how muc...
Is 8 hours of sleep really the right amount for you? Understanding your personal chronotype could be...
Reliance on wind and solar does expose nations to ...
Countries like the UK, Spain and Italy rely on gas to step in when renewables can’t produce power, l...
Ultra-thin material creates a magnetic mystery
The soft metal bismuth may be a wonder material for electronics – particularly because of one surpri...
Do we actually know what a healthy gut microbiome ...
The gut microbiome has tremendous potential for helping us treat, or even prevent, many different co...
Why sleep quality is so important – and so difficu...
Sleeping a solid 8 hours isn't the whole story and the quality of your sleep might matter more. But ...
Fire at world’s largest battery facility is a clea...
A fire at Vistra Energy's Moss Landing battery storage facility in California destroyed thousands of...
Tiny insect-like robot can flip, loop and hover fo...
A flying robot the size of a postage stamp can hover for up to 15 minutes without breaking, and it c...
2024 may have been the rainiest – as well as hotte...
Global average precipitation in 2024 may have broken the previous record set in 1998, as rising temp...
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban – but the figh...
Now that the US Supreme Court has decided that a law banning TikTok is constitutional, the platform ...
World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrec...
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions fo...
Blue Origin vs SpaceX: Who is winning the battle o...
Blue Origin and SpaceX both launched rockets on 16 January, but while Jeff Bezos' company saw a laun...
Rabbits may eat their own teeth to boost their cal...
The animals' teeth are constantly being worn down due to their tough diet. But rather than losing ca...
Robotic exoskeleton can train expert pianists to p...
Trained pianists who hit a plateau improved their finger speed after a half-hour training session wi...
Elusive phase change finally spotted in a quantum ...
Researchers saw a chain of atoms in a quantum simulator go from being magnetic to not magnetic at al...
Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any othe...
The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his no...
Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Cl...
In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New...
Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump i...
Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 ...
