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Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in ...
Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big r...
We now have a greater understanding of how exercis...
Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells...
A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the ...
We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surp...
Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell tran...
A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man wh...
The best new science fiction books of December 202...
From a new collection of shorter fiction by Brandon Sanderson to Simon Stålenhag’s new work, via a S...
Was a little-known culture in Bronze Age Turkey a ...
Archaeologists have gathered evidence from hundreds of Bronze Age sites in western Turkey that could...
Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000...
Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mas...
Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the te...
Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip speciall...
Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may ...
Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes ...
Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than th...
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African fore...
Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of da...
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks ...
Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: ...
New Scientist Book Club members share their thoughts on our November read, Grace Chan's Every Versio...
Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M...
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Iain M. Banks's classic sci-fi novel The Player of ...
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astoundi...
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player o...
Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in t...
Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early un...
Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic...
Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to D...
Physicists have worked out a universal law for how...
Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many...
Emergency response needed to prevent climate break...
Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London,...
