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Quantum computer quickly mines cryptocurrency whil...
A superconducting quantum computer is part of a network that is mining an experimental cryptocurrenc...
How to sparkle in conversation with strangers
In the face of loneliness, many people are turning to AI chatbots for companionship – but research s...
First working nuclear clock heralds a new era in t...
A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology...
Global map reveals the vast scale of underground f...
Our soils are teeming with networks of fungi, and we're starting to understand how important they ar...
Have we finally worked out how Venus flytraps snap...
It was widely thought that the movement of water through Venus flytrap cells caused the trap to clos...
El Niño has started and the weather could get weir...
Global weather agencies have declared that El Niño has begun, and models show it is more likely than...
Toy universe shows that time could be a quantum il...
An experiment with a toy universe made up of extremely cold atoms shows how time can emerge from qua...
Dramatic photo of ibis being guided to their winte...
Student Gunnar Hartmann wins Nature’s 2026 Scientist at Work photography competition for this shot o...
The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielbe...
With Steven Spielberg’s new extraterrestrial film Disclosure Day just out, it’s the ideal time to wa...
Ditching cigarettes for vapes may curb the cancer ...
A study of 4.5 million people suggests that ex-smokers who take up vaping are more at risk of dying ...
New Scientist recommends a brilliant take on the e...
Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling acco...
Think you have a good sense of humour? So do most ...
Feedback is alarmed by a study that explored how funny people think they are, and that discovered ce...
Wolves seen hunting European bison in rare camera-...
Europe’s largest land animal, the bison, is thought to be relatively unthreatened by predators, but ...
Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean...
Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of wh...
Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar syst...
The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with un...
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could des...
Climate models suggest a small nuclear war in the tropics would do even more damage to the ozone lay...
Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers...
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two year...
A Waymo nearly hit me, but I'm still optimistic ab...
A near miss with a Waymo while cycling through London hasn't changed my optimistic stance on driverl...
