New Scientist
Easter Island statues may have been built by small...
Mapping of the main quarry on Easter Island where giant statues were carved has uncovered evidence t...
Cold-water swimming has benefits for the brain as ...
There is a growing body of research on the physical benefits of going for a dip in chilly water, but...
The science of swimming trunks – including tightne...
Feedback dives into a new piece of research on the merits of swimming briefs or looser swimming shor...
Pandas use tools to scratch thanks to a strange ev...
Captive giant pandas have been seen breaking off twigs and bamboo pieces to scratch hard-to-reach sp...
A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping c...
New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and...
Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two spe...
Scientists have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move ...
We might have just seen the first hints of dark ma...
Unexplained gamma ray radiation coming from the edge of the Milky Way galaxy could be produced by se...
We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for liv...
The laws of thermodynamics don't accurately account for the complex processes in living cells – do w...
The long-overlooked insects that could save our cr...
Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we’re disc...
Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of t...
The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to ...
Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of chan...
Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could in...
A new understanding of causality could fix quantum...
Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A...
Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?...
There are widespread concerns that deep-sea mining for metals will damage fragile ecosystems. But if...
Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multic...
Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit a...
Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as ...
As the impact of global warming becomes more obvious, you might expect countries to step up climate ...
COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging ...
The 194 countries still taking part in UN climate negotiations reaffirmed the Paris Agreement follow...
Extinct animals in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age mak...
From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the...
Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the bigg...
The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mas...
