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All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuff...
Our bodies emit a stream of low-energy photons, and now experiments in mice have revealed that this ...
Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off ...
With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shakier. It is a pity th...
Our favourite science fiction books of all time (t...
Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite ...
Europe increasingly vulnerable to hailstones the s...
Very large hail – hailstones more than 5 centimetres in diameter – poses a growing threat to Europe ...
Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and...
Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due ...
Record heat in 2023 and 2024 may just have been na...
Simulations suggest that an extraordinary jump in temperatures seen in 2023 and 2024 could simply be...
Major US cities like New York and Seattle are sink...
Groundwater extraction, plate tectonics and consequences of the last glacial period mean that most o...
The maths that tells us when a scientific discover...
When huge scientific discoveries are made, you may hear that they are “statistically significant” or...
Dementia cases are rising faster in China than the...
Cases of dementia doubled worldwide between 1990 and 2021, but more than quadrupled in China during ...
99.999 per cent of the deep seabed remains unexplo...
Deep-sea submersibles have been diving for decades, but records show that we have still only explore...
Science is a Pandora's box – but we should open it...
We are often warned of the consequences of knowing too much, but even when scientific ideas have the...
What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re ...
The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. No...
The birds upending our idea of shared parenting
Superb starlings appear to swap between parent and ‘nanny’ roles to help raise chicks over their lif...
Strange microbes give clues to the ancestor of all...
The origin of complex eukaryotic cells, of the type found in all plants and animals, is shrouded in ...
Concerns raised over AI trained on 57 million NHS ...
The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rate...
England has just given the thumbs up to gene-edite...
A UK parliamentary committee has greenlit gene-edited plants. This is great news, as it will boost f...
Nothing is stronger than quantum connections – and...
The mathematics of graphs has helped reveal a principle that limits the strength of quantum correlat...
Why physicists keep trying to get rid of space-tim...
Physicists are trying to ditch the concept of space-time – the supposed fabric of physical reality. ...
