category: science
- Bird flu is spreading. Your backyard feeder could make it worse
- Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize
- Scientists left this farm field alone. Thousands of orchids appeared
- Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover
- Why do humans use ‘baby voice’ when speaking to pets?
- Recyclable glue bonds underwater in seconds and holds for years
- Moonquakes could reveal buried lunar ice for future explorers
- Q&A: Flesh-eating screwworms have returned. Which new technologies could stop them?
- New wildfire research system follows ecosystems from controlled burns through long-term recovery
- James Webb captures a cosmic lion sculpted by a dying star
- How to design a space habitat that supports its residents’ mental health
- Total solar eclipse to spellbind Europe
- Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people
- 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal a surprisingly sophisticated human mind
- Scientists discover bacteria that lock toxic uranium into a stable form
- Charge-based strategy improves controlled delivery of therapeutic peptides from gelatin-based materials
- Butterfly ranges shift worldwide amid climate change, with most species expanding their reach
- Just 50°C decides whether an ultrathin magnetic film stays flat or falls apart
- Different genes, same result: How flies evolved multiple ways to define heads and tails
- XENONnT detector narrows the hunt for dark matter
- Camels find unlikely home in outback Australia
- Earthquake sensors can help forecast how hurricanes intensify
- Fossil study finds vision—not the ’thinking’ frontal lobe—drove varied brain development in primates
- Sugars may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, new research suggests
- How evolution fine tunes molecular mechanisms to create and maintain membrane diversity between species
- Measurements trace European wildfire smoke high into upper troposphere
- Accelerating the discovery of ceramic materials using cellulose nanofiber dispersions
- Three factors in midlife can delay the onset of dementia by 13 years | New Scientist
- Using the Earth’s magnetic field to hunt for axions and dark photons
- Electric field reverses phonon chirality and spin direction in ferroelectric crystal
- ‘Little red dots’ may be pulsating monster stars that created early-universe black holes
- Two origins of life: Free-living cells may have emerged twice as bacteria and archaea diverged
- Distrust of mainstream media may fuel vaccine conspiracy beliefs
- Lemurs fall prey to human herpes virus
- Why life’s hardships may make conspiracy theories more appealing
- What the panic over Gen Z’s reading habits gets wrong
- Most people prefer AI-written stories – and can’t tell when they are made by humans | New Scientist
- Electrocatalytic method could purify wastewater by converting pollutants into recoverable polymers
- Decades-old theory for how insect societies evolve challenged
- Darwin proved right about gnat-trapping carnivorous plant | New Scientist
- Magnetic dopants help quantum dots use light for chemical reactions
- Asteroid Nysa’s rare three-lobed structure challenges formation models
- World Meteorological Organization says prepare for a strong El Niño
- Mechanical recycling contamination risks the circular plastics economy, but quality control analytics can help
- Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers
- Invasive rats are stopping small mammals from returning to Madagascar’s regenerating forests: Study
- Climate‑related ‘silent adaptation’ coping strategies are going beyond official directives
- HOAs are often barriers to sustainable landscaping and solar energy. Here’s how they could be bridges instead
- Pacific cloud brightening could weaken El Nino, but models reveal risks for Europe and Asia
- Ant brains reveal how evolution turned hunger into parenting
- New blazes in Greece as strong winds hamper firefighting
- A single RNA-based therapeutics approach against multiple types of RNA viruses
- New open-source software predicts energy transfer between tiny defects in solid materials
- A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon
- Ancient Irish volcano offers new clues about the development of its modern-day, active ‘brothers and sisters’
- Cesium atoms and quantum dots generate indistinguishable photons for modular quantum networks
- Quantum computers are starting to become useful as scientific tools | New Scientist
- AI reveals explosive bursts in bird evolution
- A faster, cheaper way to map the world’s forests with AI
- Hollywood films distort real volcanic eruptions, study finds
- 2D quantum memory device reaches single-electron limit of information storage
- Advanced mass spectrometry technique breaks free from specialist hardware
- A distant primordial object may be a newborn ‘Little Red Dot’
- Ultracold neutrons don’t disappear into the mirror world
- An island has been waging war on rats. They think they’ve finally won | New Scientist
- Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion
- Scientists repair damaged plastics at the molecular level, boosting recycling potential
- Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings
- Moon’s thick crust could amplify elusive gravitational-wave signals
- Record snow drought drives water-hauling crisis for Rocky Mountain ranchers
- Rethinking how we protect the world’s mountain communities
- Scientists pinpoint where cells first begin copying DNA
- Low-level cloud loss amplifies global warming, simulations suggest
- Sharks, spines and speed: The hidden architecture behind different swimming styles revealed
- Moth wings reveal an unexpected ability to smell plant chemicals
- Cows’ diets influence omega-3s and other fatty acids, study shows
- Can a robot tutor give too much help? Why timing matters
- New methods for removing harmful nitrates from drinking water identified
- How did inbred brown tree snakes take over the island of Guam?
- 3D-printed bioplastic pods offer new hope for seagrass restoration in Thailand
- Plant scientist explains the impact of the EU’s new gene-editing rules
- Alan Turing’s gay short story reveals ‘fun, cheeky’ man who loved sex and literature
- Could alien signals be hiding on a different radio channel?
- 80‑million‑year‑old snake fossil sheds light on why lizards lost their limbs and started slithering
- Not every meal has the same impact: Researchers reveal the hidden footprint of our food
- Plant diversity boosts natural pest control in farms, while forests and grasslands follow different rules
- Chocolate syrup-like fluid stores multiple interacting memories
- Global map reveals mining’s uneven toll on forests and biodiversity
- Do tourists stress out safari animals? We tested their dung to find out
- Melts in your mouth, but not in your car: The ongoing scientific quest to create heat‑resistant chocolate
- Lithium ions sprint up to 10,000 times faster when their molecular cages briefly open
- Trace DNA reveals critically endangered Chinese bahaba in Hong Kong after decade without records
- Nanopores can activate human T cells without biochemical signals
- Virtual café experiment finds Japanese participants keep greater distance than Italians
- Dark energy doesn’t exist, claims controversial paper | New Scientist
- Conditions remain ‘unchanged’ for young people with disability, data reveal
- JWST captures rare glimpse of early black hole growing inside network of young galaxies
- Climate change making Europe drought ‘more severe’: study
- Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks. A growing space junk problem will make doing so more important
- Storms that built a graveyard: Ancient monsoons created a spectacular dinosaur fossil site
- The violence link: Animal maltreatment and family violence often happen together
- Last Word: Are flies following a strategy when they keep hitting a window? Part 2 | New Scientist
- Why do fictional geologists keep getting killed off in movies? | New Scientist
- Why open-source software can be both good and bad | New Scientist
- Ancient ferns turned Triassic Europe into a wildfire inferno
- Floating colonies: Engineering 3D microbial architectures in liquid cultures
- China is trying to regulate relationships with AI – can it work? | New Scientist
- Early respiratory infections may lower higher education completion and adult income
- Burnt wooden beams discovered in Jerusalem shed new light on the First Temple’s destruction
- Scientists use dual-frequency images to explore black hole plasma physics
- From quantum error correction to emergent gravity: Probing holographic universes at QLab
- Students’ emotional resources in high school linked to college completion
- AI agent helps prepare synchrotron X-ray experimental measurements, paving the way for autonomous operation
- Invisible microbes ‘mining’ toxic waste in the Flinders Ranges
- Why AI’s environmental footprint won’t disappear into orbit
- Earth’s waters are quietly running out of oxygen, scientists warn
- Worried about booking a holiday abroad? How travel operators can provide reassurance
- On the hunt for Earth’s first complex life
- Antibiotic resistant gene found in Australian soil
- Experts find new way to enhance social media influencer messaging
- Small but mighty dung beetles take a big bite out of farm methane
- Schrödinger‑like charges in six‑molecule clusters point to new quantum components
- Why some primates have even tougher births than humans
- UK launches hi-tech mission to study Greenland ice melt
- How bacteria sacrifice themselves to render antibiotics ineffective
- New algorithm improves gene expression marker identification across diverse biological systems
- Crab-dug tunnels boost methane-eating microbes in coastal wetlands, study finds
- BESSY II: New sample environment allows glimpse into thermocatalytic processes
- Astronomers find nearby planets to be small, strange, and utterly uninhabitable
- Asteroid breakup may explain inner solar system bombardment 800 million years ago
- What if disabled astronauts are just better suited to space?
- Faster quantum computers can learn from their own mistakes
- NASA captured the Black Sea turning brilliant turquoise from space
- DNA origami turns secret messages into nano–Morse code that acts as multiplayer molecular encryption
- How supermassive black holes feed themselves
- Can everyone live a ‘good life’ without destroying the planet? | New Scientist
- Physicists confirm 20-year-old theory that could boost quantum technology
- Two atmospheric patterns may explain why some heat waves in Europe persist
- Engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels
- Only 13% of biodiversity promises from 180 influential companies pass accountability test
- World’s first superconducting quantum heat engine offers path to larger quantum computers
- Firefighters gain upper hand on deadly Spain wildfire
- Typhoon makes landfall in China, downgraded to severe tropical storm
- In Sicily, drones at work to predict volcanic eruptions
- Why sharing-economy drivers are disengaging—and how platform design can win them back
- New heat wave blasts US, could break records
- Scientists discover how the brain rewires itself to truly multitask
- Brutal heat wave forecast for western US this weekend
- Thousands shelter in Taiwan as typhoon lashes Japan islands
- Japan’s space agency conducts first test flight for experimental reusable rocket
- Children back group claims over evidence, but privacy reduces bias, experiments reveal
- Why natural forests survive heat waves better than planted forests
- China takes a page from SpaceX and recaptures the first stage of a rocket to reuse it
- Math reveals how honeybee hives balance the ‘daring few, patient many’ strategy
- Tropical forests can switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources during El Niño
- Artificial hand reproduces human gestures using memory written into light-responsive polymers
- High-status Iron Age burials reveal early links to Roman Empire
- Report shows declining gun homicides, record gun suicides in 2024
- Researchers discover genetic secrets of mung bean crops
- 10 fathers took extended leave to care for their babies—how their family life changed
- Largest viral-protein library gives researchers new way to probe emerging pathogens
- Why bees are struggling to survive this summer
- The galaxy’s coldest “stars” may actually be alien megastructures
- 2026 eclipse: 5 citizen science projects you can contribute to
- This alien planet never has sunrise or sunset. It may support life
- From bursts to creep: Rewriting the story of mud volcano flows
- Neutron imaging reveals how water limits CO₂ storage in recycled concrete
- Self-propelled microparticles scrub stubborn biofilms, improving wound care and instrument cleaning
- Medieval Islamic societies considered lovesickness a distinct mental illness, research shows
- Animal tracking overlooks biodiversity hotspots, with 95% of studies in well-funded countries
- Stress protection of Amazon trees, induced by climate warming, may alter atmosphere chemistry
- Hawaii's famous “happy-face” spider has a surprising relative
- Ancient rocks reveal Earth’s past warm periods were cooler than thought
- Certifying third-party repairs retains customers, signals utility left in goods
- Wearables to track plant health: Farmers could use real-time information to manage crop conditions
- Sustainability reporting no longer shields companies from criticism
- Shackleton’s final ship is no longer just a sonar shadow
- Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | Quanta Magazine
- Heidelberg physicists just united two opposing quantum theories
- How economic expectations and political polarization influence fertility rates and the number of marriages
- Rare goblin shark filmed alive for the first time in the deep sea
- Why some glasses break suddenly while others deform smoothly
- Is the state of nature fair? Researchers measure how biomass is distributed in microbial communities
- What powers the Everglades? Study tracks how algae and plant matter fuel the food web
- How cells keep genomic hitchhikers under control
- Turning up the heat on cancer: Manganese ferrite nanoparticles outperform rivals
- Greatest science books: Why Erwin Schrödinger’s 1944 classic What Is Life? still feels prescient | New Scientist
- Fishing for DNA: How a cup of river water can reveal secrets about human health, pollution and biodiversity
- Bumblebees collect up to 7 times more toxic metals than honeybees
- When managing your money, take a chatbot’s ‘confidence’ with a grain of salt
- Study finds sharing tax numbers boosts transparency, not confusion, for investors
- Satellite record reveals US tidal wetland productivity rose 6% in 20 years
- Inferring multicellular interactions in tumors from standard pathology slides
- South Pole Telescope analysis releases new catalog of more than 7,000 galaxy clusters
- Sunlight-powered chemistry reduces hazardous oxidant risk
- Watching how molecules change shape in slow motion could inform future molecular machines
- Scientists enable DNA synthesis using only temperature instead of chemical reagents
- Reinventing pediatric dental training in Singapore
- JWST finds the most distant barred galaxy candidate in the early universe
- Astronomers spot an extremely rare galaxy mega-merger
- Engineers solved an airflow mystery hidden nearly a mile underground
- Webb uncovers dust-shrouded heart of Centaurus A after galaxy clash 2 billion years ago
- Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’ | Quanta Magazine
- Astronomers may have caught an early galaxy in the process of dying
- NASA celebrates America's 250th birthday with incredible views of space
- Scientists reveal what really happens when water is trapped in tiny spaces
- What is ‘SpudCell’? Arguably the greatest bioengineering feat yet | New Scientist
- This thoughtful book will make you look at the wonders of trees anew | New Scientist
- Do you want your underwear with added probiotics? | New Scientist
- The weirdness of neutrinos could completely rewrite particle physics | New Scientist
- A type of fibre that stimulates GLP-1 release approved for use in food | New Scientist
- For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides | Quanta Magazine
- Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater | New Scientist
- Physicists create a strange new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea
- Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness
- These tiny soil microbes could rescue crops from salty farmland
- James Webb uncovers exotic salt clouds on a mysterious pink world
- One-way quantum synchronization could make quantum computers more reliable
- Toy universe shows that time could be a quantum illusion | New Scientist
- Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel
- NASA reveals Artemis III crew for one of the most complex space missions ever
- James Webb reveals two completely different twilights on an alien world
- AI could uncover new physics faster but there’s a surprising catch
- MIT’s new spacecraft engine could send tiny satellites to Mars
- Scientists think they solved the mystery of the Amaterasu particle
- Why we should all take quantum physics extremely personally | New Scientist
- NASA updates worsening ISS leak after crew safety alert
- Scientists found a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states