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CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our ...
Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unkn...
Earth has a mysterious triple symmetry that may in...
A circle running along the 27° east and 153° west meridians divides the globe into two halves with e...
Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy us...
A UN report warns of the rapid growth in AI energy consumption, but suggests users can improve effic...
Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in th...
A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms can correct its own errors during long computation...
Keto diet shows real promise for anorexia recovery...
Restricting carbohydrates may sound like an unlikely approach to treating anorexia, but following a ...
Ötzi's frozen remains may harbour metabolically ac...
Researchers studying a 5300-year-old mummified man have identified bacteria that lived in his gut wh...
Why you need to future proof your brain in middle ...
Ages 40 to 65 see a period of turmoil in the brain that has previously been overlooked. But identify...
How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes t...
Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are sti...
The best new popular science books of June 2026
The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, wh...
Hearing loss is bad for the whole body – but new t...
From dementia to heart attacks, hearing loss has been linked to a wide range of effects across the b...
Hidden store of manganese may have helped Earth ge...
Computer simulations have uncovered a new manganese compound that could exist deep in Earth’s mantle...
New Scientist recommends Togetherness, a radical n...
An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power...
'Transformative' pancreatic cancer drug doubles su...
People with advanced pancreatic cancer taking an experimental daily pill lived nearly twice as long ...
Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health be...
Turmeric is heralded for its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, but columnist Alice Klein...
A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematician...
Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some q...
How human error became a weapon against large lang...
Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human...
Huge study of Alzheimer’s genetics identifies new ...
Almost 50 more genes have been flagged as being linked to Alzheimer’s, along with changes in activit...
Geoengineering can thicken Arctic sea ice, but for...
Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freez...
