New Scientist
We've found a mysterious substance on Titan and Pl...
Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what...
Most portable air conditioners suck – but there's ...
Efficiency ratings on portable air conditioners don’t give consumers the full picture, and one type ...
Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre
Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere indicates that the planet contains more ice than rock, s...
Can prebiotics, probiotics or postbiotics help you...
The disruption of your gut microbiome is a major consequence, and possible cause, of ageing. Columni...
Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animal...
Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammal...
Waves reflecting off Earth's core shifted Japan af...
An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, ca...
Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supr...
Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first publ...
Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years l...
As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life mor...
Ancient monument may have been an early Stonehenge...
Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from ...
Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries ...
Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from ...
No young women have died of cervical cancer in Eng...
We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cas...
Chilling the body with drugs could limit brain dam...
Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core body temperature may...
Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gathere...
DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, ...
Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are fly...
Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes w...
Our brains have their first thoughts surprisingly ...
By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly eve...
Autism and ADHD are on the rise due to widening di...
A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD ...
The secrets to keeping your brain sharp in old age...
Neurologist Emily Rogalski studies "superagers" – people in their 80s or 90s with unusually keen mem...
A quantum state that lasts forever may finally be ...
Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is f...
