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| Some planets may orbit a supermassive black hole instead of a star | |
| This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like | |
| UN climate summit: Scientists' messages to world leaders | |
| A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding | |
| Man sees the world in miniature after a stroke damages his brain | |
| Do dads matter? Anna Machin on the fascinating science of fatherhood | |
| People like the idea of a carbon tax - if the money is put to good use | |
| Climate change will boost risk of extreme flooding in northern Europe | |
| Fast swimming fish robot could perform underwater surveillance | |
| Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama | |
| Meltwater from Greenland could raise sea level an extra 7 centimetres | |
| C-section babies have a different microbiome - but not for long | |
| Artificial intelligence can now predict El Niño 18 months in advance | |
| Laws are needed when technological change ends up squeezing workers | |
| The 4 ingredients to create consciousness could explain our own minds | |
| The best roguelike games are a perfect balance of order and randomness | |
| Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans | |
| Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent? | |
| Fierce battle looks likely as land-dwelling mudskipper fish face off | |
| How aspirin became a wonder drug against heart disease and cancer | |
| The school climate strikes this Friday need the support of adults | |
| xkcd comic creator Randall Munroe on the thrill of physics | |
| Loch Ness Monster unmasked: it's a load of eels in a giant eel costume | |
| A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun | |
| Deliberate drowning of Brazil's rainforest is worsening climate change | |
| Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion | |
| Saturn's moon Enceladus is having a snowball fight with other moons | |
| Mathematicians find a completely new way to write the number 3 | |
| Jeffrey Epstein scandal raises questions over who should fund science | |
| Special report: How climate change is melting France's largest glacier | |
| Frogs evolved to be more scared after mongooses came to their island | |
| The most powerful volcano on Jupiter's moon Io is about to explode | |
| 'What have insects ever done for us,' asks George McGavin | |
| Whales evolved large brains in the same way that we did | |
| True nature of consciousness: Solving the biggest mystery of your mind | |
| Most people in the UK back limits on flying to tackle climate change | |
| Radio waves from electric devices may affect the body clock of insects | |
| AI learns to defy the laws of physics to win at hide-and-seek | |
| Sim Singhrao on the secrets of a healthy mind at New Scientist Live | |
| School strikes are changing the world, says UN climate science advisor | |
| New species of giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian | |
| Black hole that 'rings' like a bell shows Einstein was right | |
| One in 16 US women were forced into having sex for the first time | |
| Megan Rossi on how to look after your gut at New Scientist Live | |
| Vikings probably hunted Iceland's walruses to extinction for ivory | |
| Fires devastating Australia's east coast have arrived unusually early | |
| A network in the brain is involved in a range of mental health issues | |
| Microplastics may stop hermit crabs from choosing the best home | |
| 50-year old maths problem about an infinite lottery finally solved | |
| Boosting circadian rhythms can help relieve perinatal depression | |
| Tall twisting tower is made from wood that shapes itself as it dries | |
| Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria | |
| Largest ever polar expedition will soon be frozen in drifting sea ice | |
| Early whales swam doggy paddle across the ocean from India to Africa | |
| Do brains have a gender? Gina Rippon to speak at New Scientist Live | |
| We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees | |
| Decline of migrating birds could be partly due to pesticides | |
| Generator that runs on heat escaping to the sky can charge phones | |
| Bones release a hormone that helps us deal with sudden danger | |
| Report reveals no-deal Brexit impact - here's what you need to know | |
| Why are countries failing on their promise to stop deforestation? | |
| Astronomer Royal Martin Rees to call for international tech guidelines | |
| Baffling maths riddle that looks like a pile of worms almost solved | |
| US to ban flavoured e-cigarettes after hundreds get strange illness | |
| Giant ice age kangaroos had massive cheekbones for crushing bites | |
| Robot can launch out of the water and glide like a flying fish | |
| We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth | |
| This watery planet is the best place to hunt life we've seen so far | |
| There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy | |
| Bye bye space-time: is it time to free physics from Einstein's legacy? | |
| Can we create new land to save the fragile Mississippi delta? | |
| Brexit makes us question democracy - and so does climate change | |
| Facebook must come clean and hand over election campaign data | |
| Dean Burnett on why disruptive teens might have saved the human race | |
| Does nuking hurricanes mean Trump is declaring war on climate change? | |
| Make a remote-control pest-proof bird feeder - part 2 | |
| Am I addicted? The truth behind being hooked on gaming, sex or porn | |
| Planet Earth has 9 safety limits and we've already exceeded 4 of them | |
| Netflix's Diagnosis is a real-life House with added crowdsourcing | |
| Don't Miss: Interplanetary paranoia, green buildings and anxious art | |
| Climate change: Is capitalism the problem or the solution? | |
| Australia's anti-encryption law is hurting press and personal privacy | |
| Giles Yeo to explain the truth about diets at New Scientist Live | |
| Building the battery of the future - today | |
| What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality | |
| Ghost crabs use teeth in their stomach to growl at their enemies | |
| Some physicists still doubt whether LIGO has seen gravitational waves | |
| HPV vaccinations seem to be creating herd immunity for US men | |
| Two new species of electric eel come as a shock to biologists | |
| Logging study reveals huge hidden emissions of the forestry industry | |
| Margaret Atwood's The Testaments' anti-science world is a grim warning | |
| Everything you need to know about the UN's upcoming climate summit | |
| Building climate change defences could massively boost world economy | |
| Ancient footprints show Neanderthals may have been taller than thought | |
| Titan's odd-shaped lakes may have formed from underground explosions | |
| An artificial leg with sensors helps people feel every step | |
| Transplant organs can be supercooled to below zero for longer storage | |
| Europeans have steadily accumulated mutations for thousands of years | |
| How you live affects your sperm - and perhaps your future children too | |
| Wild mountain gorillas enjoy playing in water just like we do | |
| Women have a daily hormone cycle as well as a monthly one | |
| India's Vikram moon lander appears to have crashed on the moon | |
| Mathematicians crack elusive puzzle involving the number 42 | |
| Why do fragrances cause health problems for one in three people? | |
| Three people have now died from lung disease after vaping | |
| Jurassic turtle may have been crushed underfoot by a giant dinosaur | |
| Drug cocktail seems to reverse biological signs of ageing in people | |
| How big is a proton? We may finally have the answer to this puzzle | |
| Coral reefs are now spawning out of sync and might fail to reproduce | |
| Scientists win millions in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize | |
| Shep Doeleman on the Breakthrough Prize-winning black hole photo | |
| Pesticide made from spider venom kills pests without harming bees | |
| New Scientist joins the Covering Climate Now initiative | |
| Police robot can be flung through windows and distract suspects | |
| Vegetarian diet linked with 22 per cent lower risk of heart disease | |
| All languages, however different, convey information at the same rate | |
| A single severe head injury can trigger long-term brain damage | |
| AI facial recognition software now works for wild chimpanzees too | |
| UK court backs police use of face recognition, but fight isn't over | |
| 540-million-year-old worm was first segmented animal that could move | |
| The psychobiotics revolution has implications for us all | |
| Inside the powerful fire clouds that pack a volcanic punch | |
| How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation | |
| Einstein's black holes are not the black holes we see in reality | |
| Global shipping needs to clean up its act now - here's how to do it | |
| What makes us addicts? Judith Grisel is determined to find out | |
| A road made of solar panels seemed like a good idea. Now it's broken | |
| How to make a remote-controlled pest-proof bird feeder | |
| The world is getting better, so why are we convinced otherwise? | |
| Guilt-free online shopping is possible if we reinvent home delivery | |
| Forget pristine habitats - for biodiversity save abandoned quarries | |
| Sci-fi film Aniara's best trick is to make the future feel like now | |
| Don't miss: troubled robots, winning designs and high seas | |
| How beautiful scientific instruments transformed Britain | |
| The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics | |
| Hurricane Dorian may have made a species of bird go extinct | |
| World's hungriest caterpillar is wreaking destruction around the world | |
| The surprising future of driving: cars that spy on your every move | |
| SpaceX satellite near miss shows need for rules of the road in space | |
| Goose blood runs cold to carry more oxygen on high altitude flights | |
| Healthy gut, happy mind: What to eat to boost how you feel | |
| How what you eat directly influences your mental health | |
| We can tell where a whale has travelled from the themes in its song | |
| Dorian batters Bahamas with strong hurricane winds for record time | |
| How much do you know about the world? | |
| Bananas have benefited from climate change - but they won't in future | |
| Strong support for Trump linked to willingness to persecute immigrants | |
| Climate change has created more bird winners than losers in England | |
| Hurricane Dorian is joint strongest Atlantic storm ever to hit land | |
| Great Barrier Reef now has 'very poor' outlook due to climate change | |
| Harbour seals are breeding in the river Thames and have had 138 pups | |
| CRISPR could lead to gene-editing fix for a form of male infertility | |
| Giant virus has evolved its own kind of CRISPR to destroy invaders | |
| Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation | |
| AIs that deblur faces could make people on CCTV easier to identify | |
| AIs that deblur faces could make people on CCTV easier to identify | |
| People who are naturally slim have smaller and more active fat cells | |
| Gel that makes teeth repair themselves could spell the end of fillings | |
| New Scientist Live 2019: The world's greatest science festival | |
| Military now controls Myanmarâs scientifically important amber mines | |
| We may have seen signs of an exomoon spewing out volcanic gas | |
| Robot pilot that can grab the flight controls gets its plane licence | |
| It's officially now the worst ever August for Amazon deforestation | |
| Mini-brains grown in a lab show neural activity like preterm babies | |
| Round-up: the key decisions to protect wildlife from the CITES summit | |
| Puzzling signals seen by LIGO may be gravitational wave split in two | |
| Worm robot could wiggle its way through arteries in the brain | |
| Nanotube microchips could make computers more energy efficient | |
| We've finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors | |
| Arctic and Amazon climate tipping points put our future in doubt | |
| Satellite image captures a hyperconnected English Channel at work | |
| Donât go bananas: Should we be cutting down on the fruit we eat? | |
| If I have a disease-causing gene, should my doctor tell my family? | |
| Your DNA could transfer to a weapon you have never touched | |
| The 'sexy' lichen that puts lead in your pencil, but not in a good way | |
| New Scientist puzzle #19 The vicarâs age | |
| The New Scientist quick crossword #39 | |
| Make a weather station with BBC micro:bits and a sensor | |
| Are there any aliens out there? We are close to knowing for sure | |
| Refreezing the Arctic: How to bring the ice back with geoengineering | |
| This month's top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts | |
| Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death | |
| From driverless cars to AI bridges, are we giving up too much control? | |
| How the science of happiness became an industry worth billions | |
| DNA mutation lets some people live healthily on only 4 hours' sleep | |
| Communities in East Anglia are deciding whether to abandon their towns | |
| UK police are using AI to spot spikes in Brexit-related hate crimes | |
| Red wine drinkers have more diverse gut bacteria than other drinkers | |
| SpaceXâs Starhopper has made its highest and final test flight | |
| The pyrocene has begun: How to tackle a world of raging wildfires | |
| The back pain epidemic: Why popular treatments are making it worse | |
| Marine life is still struggling after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill | |
| Weird illusion makes you think fabric is moving faster than it is | |
| Five of Jupiterâs newly discovered moons have been given names | |
| A smartphone app can detect tiny amounts of norovirus in water | |
| Stealth glider made out of special polymer self-destructs in sunlight | |
| City crows may have high cholesterol because they eat fast food | |
| Explaining why Reddit posts are removed helps people comply with rules | |
| Tests at 3 years old could predict how well your brain will age | |
| Facebookâs ad data may put millions of gay people at risk | |
| Wild polio has been eradicated in Nigeria but infections will continue | |
| Record Amazon rainforest fires spark row between Brazil and France | |
| Asteroid Ryugu has no dust on it and we donât know why | |
| Bacteria fly into the Atacama Desert every afternoon on the wind | |
| Gene editing turns cells into minicomputers that can record data | |
| Gravitational waves could settle mystery of the universe's expansion | |
| We could use bees' honey to track environmental lead pollution | |
| Chinaâs two-child policy linked to 5 million extra babies in 18 months | |
| Sitting for nine and a half hours a day linked to early death | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| YouTube has become such a garbage fire it is time to dump it for good | |
| How to defeat the disease that killed half the people who ever lived | |
| Bubbles show their iridescent beauty as light journeys through | |
| Can we halt multiple sclerosis? Catherine Lubetzki is finding out how | |
| On the hot seat: The mysterious case of the exploding Floridian toilet | |
| New Scientist Puzzle #18: Cable on the moon | |
| Cryptic crossword #13, set by Sparticle | |
| Make a rain alarm with copper tape and a BBC micro:bit | |
| Why are people still dying of malaria when we have a treatment? | |
| Inside China's attempt to boost crop yields with electric fields | |
| Mind meld: Artificial intelligence is improving the way humans think | |
| From Prey to Observation: Why games set on space stations are a thrill | |
| Don't Miss: Design for survival, lab fraud, and summer magic | |
| The Vagina Bible: Beating bad science on women's sexual health | |
| How the US almost introduced a universal basic income â 50 years ago | |
| LIGO may have seen its first black hole and neutron star collision | |
| Quantum teleportation used to send 3D information for the first time | |
| Cookies and slime in orbit: What's the point of PR stunts in space? | |
| Giving koalas faecal transplants could help them adapt to a new diet | |
| Survey says scientists mistrust a large amount of published research | |
| Volcano behind huge eruption that kick-started mini ice age identified | |
| Quantum weirdness isn't real â we've just got space and time all wrong | |
| High blood pressure in your 40s linked to smaller brain size at 70 | |
| Is air pollution causing mental health conditions like depression? | |
| An inside look at the NHS's plans to revolutionise healthcare with AI | |
| We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow | |
| Cities are using walls of moss to tackle air pollution from traffic | |
| There's no such thing as a 'gay gene' finds largest study of sexuality | |
| Extinction Rebellion founder calls for mass psychedelic disobedience | |
| Climate change will drive longer extreme heatwaves in summer | |
| A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universes | |
| We have spotted 8 more mysterious repeating radio bursts from space | |
| The UK has lost its World Health Organization âmeasles-freeâ status | |
| Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out | |
| Genetic studies hint alcohol isnât linked to breast cancer after all | |
| 15 studies retracted due to fears they used Chinese prisoners' organs | |
| Tiny magnets could help rid the ocean of harmful microplastics | |
| Wildlife summit to consider global ban on saiga antelope trade | |
| Super-deep diamonds contain traces of a pristine chunk of early Earth | |
| Robotic shorts could help you run and walk more efficiently | |
| Sticky nets of DNA from immune cells may be to blame for gallstones | |
| Europeâs extinct cave bears went into decline just as humans arrived | |
| Louisa Aldrich-Blake: a trailblazer for female surgeons and a war hero | |
| Lyme disease in England and Wales is most common in older, white women | |
| Ketogenic diet may stop migraines by changing the brainâs fuel | |
| Plant growth has declined drastically around the world due to dry air | |
| Microplastics in the Arctic and the Alps may have blown in on the wind | |
| Neanderthals spent a surprising amount of time underwater | |
| A massive collision may have made Jupiter's core so weird | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| White nationalists are perverting environmentalism to smear migrants | |
| Biologists have a problem with homosexuality â they should get over it | |
| Our obsession with perfection is damaging individuals and society | |
| What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe? | |
| How killer bees evolved into chiller bees in just one decade | |
| Chemist Lee Cronin is building an alien to work out why life exists | |
| Mars 2020 rover cameras get eye exams to hunt life on the Red Planet | |
| In a chess game played to the death, what piece should you be? | |
| New Scientist puzzle #17: Which flipping year? | |
| New Scientist quick crossword #38 | |
| How to make a BBQ thermometer with a BBC micro:bit | |
| Netflixâs bizarre riff on Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein oddly successful | |
| Don't miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet | |
| Fossils of the earliest animals seen outside China for the first time | |
| How walking helped humans take over the planet | |
| Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds | |
| Fracking boom could explain the puzzling rise in global methane levels | |
| A variety of CBD health products are in the shops - do they work? | |
| The US Army is developing AI missiles that find their own targets | |
| Military-grade jet fuel made cheaply from plant waste instead of coal | |
| The misunderstood personality trait that is causing anxiety and stress | |
| Lack of sleep is more of a problem for teen girls than social media | |
| Sperm sorting method could prevent girls being born, scientists warn | |
| Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science | |
| We could put enough wind turbines on European land to power the world | |
| Ebola breakthrough: two drugs could treat up to 90 per cent of cases | |
| Chlamydia vaccine shown to be safe in first ever human trial | |
| No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond Russia | |
| Google's hate speech-detecting AI appears to be racially biased | |
| Hackers could use Wi-Fi to install ransomware on DSLR cameras | |
| A company has used trees to find gold deep underground in Australia | |
| Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help antibiotic resistance spread | |
| I tried to eat myself smarter at a brain-boosting supper club | |
| Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why | |
| Deep-sea microbe could answer one of evolution's biggest mysteries | |
| Worldâs largest frog builds its own ponds using heavy rocks | |
| Mysterious signals from space could teach us how dark energy works | |
| Sharks use a special kind of protein to glow green in deep water | |
| AI learns to predict the outcomes of human rights court cases | |
| The NHS is setting up a lab for medical artificial intelligence | |
| UN warns most plans for limiting climate change would wreck the planet | |
| Earth's magnetic poles probably won't flip within our lifetime | |
| Personalised breast cancer test could tell when to stop treatment | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| We just found dozens of missing galaxies from the early universe | |
| Plate tectonics began nearly 2 billion years before we thought | |
| IVF add-ons are a waste of money â fertility clinics should ban them | |
| Even if bacteria do cause heart disease, diet and exercise are vital | |
| How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets | |
| The hardest thing about robots? Teaching them to cope with us | |
| How many Boris Johnsons does a Saturn V rocket weigh? | |
| Puzzle #16: Clever code | |
| Cryptic Crossword #12 | |
| How to build your own intruder alarm with basic electronics | |
| Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number | |
| Outshining fossil fuel: Your guide to the revolution in solar energy | |
| Don't Miss: FBI profiling, blanket-bog art and psychedelic minds | |
| Mosquitoes may have killed half the people who ever lived | |
| UK's biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love | |
| Meet Kuimba, the French-born gorilla released into Gabon's rainforest | |
| Why genetically modified 'golden rice' failed to conquer the world | |
| Why the news on dementia deaths is not as bad as it sounds | |
| Enormous âcannonballsâ of plasma spotted hurtling around the sun | |
| Your guide to the carbon sucking tech we need to save the planet | |
| Snowglow can cause the night sky to be twice as bright as a full moon | |
| Have we found the true cause of diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer's? | |
| Staring down seagulls can stop them stealing your chips | |
| Worldâs largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago | |
| Physicists who came up with supergravity win $3m Breakthrough Prize | |
| We could use Earth's atmosphere as a giant lens for a space telescope | |
| Artificial tongue could taste whisky to make sure it isn't counterfeit | |
| Most people would rather lose their job to a robot than another human | |
| Space agency chief fired after revealing recent Amazon deforestation | |
| Two planets orbiting a nearby star could have oceans and maybe life | |
| James Lovelock at 100: Ecclectic conference considers Gaia's future | |
| Bees' very hairy tongues help them mop up different types of nectar | |
| A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable | |
| The world's ageing dams are not built for ever more extreme weather | |
| Hottest day records set across Europe this year will soon be broken | |
| We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space | |
| Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape | |
| Cell injections could train the body to accept a transplanted organ | |
| Folic acid seems to be essential for fathers-to-be as well as mothers | |
| New type of pipe for pumping blood is just liquid with no pipe | |
| Yellow glasses donât help night drivers spot dangers any faster | |
| UK navy will use AI-guided robot submarines to find explosive mines | |
| Turtle embryos may control their sex by moving inside their eggs | |
| Londonâs public spaces are rife with multidrug-resistant bacteria | |
| Wasps are shrinking in size and it may be because of climate change | |
| Macaques really can use logical reasoning to solve puzzles | |
| LightSail 2 has used sunlight alone to steer around Earth | |
| Cockroach robot won't break after being repeatedly stamped on | |
| Humans are good at smelling cheese thanks to special smell receptors | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any lives | |
| The human placenta may not have a microbiome after all | |
| This self-riding bicycle follows you around while you walk | |
| Water wars: How to avoid conflict over our most precious resource | |
| What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers | |
| Don't Miss: African origins, deadly mozzies and meeting of minds | |
| The global economy is broken, it must work for people, not vice versa | |
| Should we eat local to cut food miles, or does it make no difference? | |
| To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it | |
| Physicist Jim Al-Khalili on Leeds United, Einstein and quantum biology | |
| Should we be scared of meth gators and mutant crocodiles? | |
| New Scientist puzzle #15: Lines through the chessboard | |
| Quick crossword #37, and last weekâs answers | |
| How to build a motion-detector wildlife camera with an old smartphone | |
| Undiscovered dinosaurs: We are entering the golden era of fossil finds | |
| Neuroscientist Ed Boyden is decoding the brain with the power of light | |
| How to suck water from desert air and quench the planet's thirst | |
| Russia has declared a state of emergency over Siberian wildfires | |
| Countries are turning off the internet to stop violence. Does it work? | |
| Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world | |
| Birds can thank attractive dinosaurs for their flight feathers | |
| There may be just 19 endangered vaquita porpoises left in the world | |
| Lyme disease may be more common in the UK than we thought | |
| Exclusive: Can a supplement slow the natural processes of ageing? | |
| Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture | |
| Genetic analysis reveals Vikings had a wide and diverse family tree | |
| There have been more than 1000 cases of measles in the US this year | |
| Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion | |
| Met Office confirms highest temperature ever recorded in the UK | |
| Facebook's fact-checking process is too opaque to know if it's working | |
| The Amazon rainforest depends on fires in Africa for a vital nutrient | |
| Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away | |
| Huge hidden canyon under Greenland ice sheet may have flowing water | |
| Gigantic, mysterious radiation leak traced to facility in Russia | |
| Just one dose of the HPV vaccine may be enough to lower cancer rates | |
| A robotic lens can be controlled by simply looking around or blinking | |
| Some jellyfish sperm have stingers that fire inside females | |
| Complaints about AncestryDNA and 23andme sent to UK data watchdog | |
| Flexible battery works when stretched and could power wearable devices | |
| SpaceXâs shiny new spaceship prototype has flown for the first time | |
| China is on track to meet its climate change goals nine years early | |
| The real history of electricity is more gripping than The Current War | |
| New monkey species found in Amazon area threatened by deforestation | |
| Coal power in Europe has had its biggest ever decline | |
| Star hurtling around a giant black hole proves Einstein right - again | |
| The UK has its hottest ever July day with temperatures hitting 38.1C | |
| Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees | |
| Bionic eye helps people who are blind read letters again | |
| Smartwatch app that soothes the nerves helps improve exam results | |
| Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech | |
| How to keep your house cool in the heatwave | |
| Huge Arctic fires have now emitted a record-breaking amount of CO2 | |
| The UK is now using AI to predict solar power and lower energy bills | |
| Tiny drug-filled capsules motor around the body to target cancer cells | |
| The brain's drain: How our brains flush out their waste and toxins | |
| Two incredibly fast-orbiting stars seem to be the wrong temperature | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Today's global warming is unparalleled in the past 2000 years | |
| Is our technology shifting us and the planet into a different era? | |
| Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths | |
| Internet gifs aren't just for the lols: Giphy wants to make money too | |
| Roma Agrawal: The amazing engineer who designed the Shard's spire | |
| Vladimir Putin is worried that wind turbines are disturbing worms | |
| New Scientist puzzle #14: the H coins problem, plus a science quiz | |
| New Scientist cryptic crossword #11 | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: Make an automatic plant waterer | |
| James Lovelock at 100: The creator of Gaia theory on humanity's future | |
| The age of giant particle accelerators like the LHC may be over | |
| After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts | |
| Why video games struggle to navigate mental healthâs tricky waters | |
| Donât Miss: future food, altered mental states and healing minds | |
| Science Museumâs Top Secret exhibition feeds spy-loving kid in us all | |
| Save the planet by reimagining your back garden as an exotic jungle | |
| What happened when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter | |
| Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction | |
| Safety of many sunscreen ingredients is in doubt â should we worry? | |
| How to trick your mind to break bad habits and reach your goals | |
| Dark feathers give birds hot wings that may save energy during flight | |
| Light pollution's effects on birds may help to spread West Nile virus | |
| LightSail 2 unfurls solar sail and begins travelling through space | |
| Anonymised data isn't nearly anonymous enough â hereâs how we fix it | |
| Brain scans hint the mysterious 'sonic attack' in Cuba was real | |
| Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump | |
| The UK is spending billions on overseas fossil fuel projects | |
| Early life on Earth may have existed as miniature droplets of jelly | |
| Our ancestors may have begun barbecuing 1.5 million years ago | |
| Deforestation in Brazil has rocketed since Bolsonaro became president | |
| US groundwater shortage is forcing us to dig extremely deep wells | |
| The Milky Way devoured another galaxy and we've spotted the remains | |
| Strange stars that go supernova may be dimming because of dark matter | |
| India has launched its Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon | |
| Strange illusion makes people forget where their teeth are | |
| Thousands of pornography sites leak data to Google and Facebook | |
| Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest | |
| Does the drop in US drug deaths mean the opioid crisis is ending? | |
| Hawaii declares state of emergency amid protests over huge telescope | |
| AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another's shoes | |
| Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to fall from space | |
| Weird new type of magnetic liquid could be used to control soft robots | |
| Adding more bioethanol to petrol is no way to go green | |
| London gender clinic reports rising number of non-binary attendees | |
| Ebola case confirmed in major city in Democratic Republic of Congo | |
| How to be a maker series 2: The complete list of everything you need | |
| Oldest Denisovan art discovered on 100,000-year-old bone fragments | |
| We're pushing 28,000 species closer to extinction | |
| WHO declares international emergency over DRC Ebola outbreak | |
| Carbon offsetting can benefit the climate, but only if done properly | |
| Birds and insect species are heading north in the UK as climate warms | |
| Half of all harm caused by medical care is preventable | |
| A type of antibiotics can cause hearing loss - and now we know why | |
| Artificial skin can sense 1000 times faster than human nerves | |
| A drastic plan might prevent catastrophic Antarctic ice sheet collapse | |
| Lifeâs winners think success was earned even if it was down to luck | |
| Parasite brings down mosquito numbers in parts of Guangzhou | |
| Using smart watches to monitor your heart could do more harm than good | |
| Puzzle #13 Snail party: four snails on each othersâ tails | |
| Quick crossword #36 | |
| Why Iâm growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: Get your plants talking to you | |
| Feedback: The very British ethnography of queuing | |
| Sibling rivalry: How birth order affects your personality and health | |
| The super fly that could feed us, end waste and make plastic and fuel | |
| Apollo 11 looks like yesterday in new TV show using restored footage | |
| Donât Miss: Electric rivals, immortality and a time travelling bard | |
| Summer of science: 10 great books and podcasts for the holidays | |
| All hail Londonâs urban jungle as it becomes first national park city | |
| Costa Rica is banning the use of polystyrene packaging from 2021 | |
| Internet joke plan to 'raid' Area 51 gets stern reply from US military | |
| Experimental Alzheimerâs drug targets gum disease bacteria | |
| Planning to carbon offset your flight? You should read this first | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Elon Musk's plans for mind-controlled gadgets: what we know so far | |
| Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe's radical new fate | |
| Drones could be used to herd rhinos away from poaching hotspots | |
| Orangutan mothers tell infants where to go by scratching themselves | |
| Chimps bond with each other and people after watching a film together | |
| Menstrual cups are as safe and leakproof as tampons and pads | |
| People who think theyâre overweight are more at risk for depression | |
| Plans to provide genetic testing on the NHS could harm well-being | |
| High levels of anxiety can slow down your reaction times | |
| Journal criticised for study claiming sun is causing global warming | |
| Ancient flood shows some dinosaurs nested in colonies like birds | |
| Mystery of universeâs expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation | |
| Personalised cancer treatments are becoming more common in the UK | |
| Sexual images are just as arousing for women as they are for men | |
| The plan to build mega wind farms and artificial islands in North Sea | |
| Elephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants | |
| Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive | |
| There arenât enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts | |
| Anorexia is a metabolic disorder as well as a psychiatric one | |
| You're less empathetic when you've been drinking heavily | |
| Indiaâs moon mission Chandrayaan 2 delayed just before launch | |
| Targeting mitochondria in neurons may help relieve severe forms of MS | |
| Regulating e-cigarette flavours may prompt some people to smoke more | |
| Healthy living lowers chances of dementia even if genetic risk is high | |
| Trees demand equal status in a new Paris gallery show | |
| Storm Barry is heading towards New Orleans â how big is the risk? | |
| René Favaloro: Heart surgery pioneer celebrated in Google doodle | |
| Purple fairy wrasse named Wakanda discovered on reef in twilight zone | |
| Double heatwave killed two-thirds of coral in central Indian Ocean | |
| Climate change may thin high-altitude clouds and trigger more warming | |
| People in China consume twice the recommended daily limit of salt | |
| Combining two cancer drugs could help slow growth of tumours | |
| AI beats professionals at six-player Texas Hold âEm poker | |
| Molecules pictured changing shape as they gain and lose electrons | |
| Superstrong artificial muscle can lift 1000 times its own weight | |
| Hear what music would have sounded like at Stonehenge 4000 years ago | |
| Unknown species of lizard found inside a gliding dinosaur's stomach | |
| Whale mothers and calves whisper to avoid attracting predators | |
| James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life | |
| Something is seriously wrong with our understanding of the cosmos | |
| India is about to launch a lander and rover to the moonâs south pole | |
| French healthcare will stop paying for homeopathic treatment in 2021 | |
| Streaming online pornography produces as much CO2 as Belgium | |
| Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample | |
| UK government urgently readies environment watchdog for no-deal Brexit | |
| Why most new medicines are no better than existing treatments | |
| Drinking sugary drinks linked to an increased risk for all cancers | |
| Authoritarians are less willing to make sacrifices for the environment | |
| Babies point at objects because they really want to touch them | |
| Worldâs top personality test doesnât really work â should we ditch it? | |
| Bluehead wrasse fish switch from female to male in just 20 days | |
| Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought | |
| Two large earthquakes have hit California in two days | |
| The moon race was about short-termism and control â we can do better | |
| The Hummingbird Project flies with wicked humour and nerdy tech talk | |
| Don't miss: Green films, rare plants and a cosmos tour | |
| Martin Parr's Laika and Soviet space dog kitsch collection - in photos | |
| From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE | |
| Make a living will if you want to decide how your life will end | |
| Sue Black on saving Bletchley Park and running for mayor of London | |
| Feedback: Is Boris Johnson a bus-building SEO genius? | |
| Puzzles #11 and #12: Lunar years and Hole of the moon | |
| Cryptic crossword #10 | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: Sensors for talking to plants | |
| This professor of future crime stops burglaries before they happen | |
| Forget Tesla - Chinaâs BYD is driving the electric car revolution | |
| AI can teach doctors to spot signs of cancer-causing viruses | |
| Cooking skills aren't enough to make you eat a healthy diet | |
| Earth's helium is running out and it has dire consequences for science | |
| Survey reveals studentsâ hopes and fears about sex | |
| The weather project artist Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern | |
| Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong | |
| UK is going backwards on climate change action, advisers warn | |
| Lack of protective vaginal bacteria linked to high ovarian cancer risk | |
| Social stress linked to bone density loss in postmenopausal women | |
| Goats reveal their feelings with the sound of distinctive bleats | |
| Do you run with bent arms? Turns out it doesn't make much difference | |
| Butterfly numbers fell by one-third in the US over past two decades | |
| Quiz: How good is your knowledge of the moon? | |
| Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan | |
| Virgin Galactic to become the first publicly traded space travel firm | |
| Instagram will ask users to rethink posting something offensive | |
| Chlamydia may spread through the gut to infect new parts of the body | |
| David Attenborough on climate change: 'We cannot be radical enough' | |
| Gene-silencing drug for rare hereditary disorder approved for NHS use | |
| HPV vaccine to be offered to UK boys as well as girls from September | |
| Watch Snowball the cockatoo show off the 14 dance moves he's invented | |
| Immunotherapy may help treat some resistant bowel cancers | |
| Cleaning up China's dirty air would give solar energy a huge boost | |
| US teens may be finding it harder to buy cannabis after legalisation | |
| Half of babies affected by Zika virus are developing normally by age 2 | |
| AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking | |
| Extracting sperm directly from testicles could help infertility issues | |
| Air pollution in Birmingham may cut months off life expectancy | |
| 7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon | |
| Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why | |
| Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system | |
| Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon | |
| Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status | |
| British Airways faces largest ever data breach fine for 2018 hack | |
| China, Russia and the US are all racing to produce hypersonic weapons | |
| Ransomware attacks are on the rise and the criminals are winning | |
| Nerve surgery helps people with paralysis control their hands and arms | |
| UK roadsides could become burial grounds as graveyards are filling up | |
| More than a thousand sharks and rays have become entangled in plastic | |
| Climate mistake reveals Earth warmed more than we thought last century | |
| Beavers engineer their ecosystems in a way that helps moose and otters | |
| Armoured liquid droplets make mini disco balls, letters and shapes | |
| Billions of extra trees may give us 20 years to tackle climate change | |
| 9000 km belt of seaweed spanning the Atlantic threatens marine life | |
| YouTube suggests extremist content more often than alt-right site Gab | |
| Exclusive: Five couples lined up for CRISPR babies to avoid deafness | |
| Astronauts don't seem to be dying from exposure to space radiation | |
| Earth could have more water than we thought while exoplanets have less | |
| Exomoons that run away from their planets could become 'ploonets' | |
| UKâs National Trust to sell off fossil fuel investments worth £45m | |
| Modern forensics solves Stone Age murder mystery after 33,000 years | |
| Data can now be stored inside the molecules that power our metabolism | |
| Ancient DNA reveals that Jews' biblical rivals were from Greece | |
| We could breed climate-friendly cows that belch less methane | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Every single neuron in an animal mapped out for the first time | |
| African lions have started climbing trees to escape buffaloes | |
| Is organic food better for you? Here's the truth about the benefits | |
| Known unknowns: How to communicate certainly in an uncertain world | |
| Galaxy simulator Ashley Spindler uses AI to understand the far cosmos | |
| Feedback: The Norwegian island that's calling time on time | |
| Puzzle #10: Betty's change | |
| Quick Crossword #35 | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: Make a robot biscuit butler | |
| Why cat people and dog people's personalities match those of their pet | |
| Ancient Earth reveals terrifying consequences of future global warming | |
| The best sci-fi books put humanity at the heart of their writing | |
| Don't miss: Armstrong, the science of music and codebreaking | |
| A classical concert at the Barbican shows how AI interprets a recital | |
| Wetland conservation is a key part of saving Earthâs ecosystems | |
| Unprecedented Arctic megafires are releasing a huge amount of CO2 | |
| Google has made a virtual soccer pitch to train AIs to play football | |
| Your boss could use your smartwatch to check your productivity levels | |
| Packaging-free shops may tackle plastic but risk increasing food waste | |
| Seals remember what they just did â but only for about 18 seconds | |
| A solar panel that unfolds in sunlight could power spacecraft | |
| The time paradox: How your brain creates the fourth dimension | |
| A total solar eclipse just passed over Chile and Argentina | |
| Japan's return to commercial whaling has no economic or cultural case | |
| A tiny jellyfish robot could swim inside the bladder to deliver drugs | |
| Have mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing? | |
| Three Identical Strangers: Was the twin separation study ethical? | |
| Climate change made Europe's heatwave at least five times more likely | |
| The weirdest stars we've ever seen have astronomers utterly baffled | |
| Teaching AIs to make mistakes like kids would help them learn faster | |
| Antarctic sea ice is declining dramatically and we donât know why | |
| Was Mexicoâs freak summer hail storm due to global warming? | |
| We need to shut power plants early to stay under 1.5°C warming | |
| Interstellar object 'Oumuamua almost definitely not aliens, we think | |
| YouTube anti-vax videos are on the decline but are yet to be wiped out | |
| We are much less security savvy with our smartphones than we think | |
| Cockroach robot won't break after being repeatedly stamped on | |
| Humans are good at smelling cheese thanks to special smell receptors | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any lives | |
| We could kill cancer cells by hijacking their odd electrical current | |
| Deadly drug-resistant fungal disease has âinfested' New York City | |
| European heatwave: France hits highest recorded temperature of 45.1°C | |
| Planet in triple-star system may be our best chance to find alien life | |
| When US pulls overseas abortion funding, abortion rates go up not down | |
| Remains of Genoa bridge demolished one year after deadly disaster | |
| Gettysburg Address stored in DNA using a binary code made of holes | |
| Impossible Foods boss says we should tax meat to boost veg-based diets | |
| NASA is sending a drone to fly around Titan looking for signs of life | |
| Mystery radio waves from space tracked to a surprising home galaxy | |
| We jump to conclusions even when it pays to wait for the facts | |
| Shatterproof phone screens could be made from seashell-like glass | |
| New kind of light is a vortex beam that twists faster as it moves | |
| Our brains replay experiences when we rest to help us make decisions | |
| Miniature brains grown in the lab have human-like neural activity | |
| Ancient crocodile cousins evolved vegetarianism at least three times | |
| It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought | |
| Swimming in the sea completely changes the microbes on your skin | |
| Flightless bird three times the size of an ostrich used to roam Europe | |
| HPV vaccine has significantly cut rates of cancer-causing infections | |
| Ancient DNA reveals Neanderthal migration and interbreeding | |
| Barefoot walkers have tough feet but sense the ground just as well | |
| Tiny flying insect robot has four wings and weighs under a gram | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| US suicide rate at its highest since the end of the second world war | |
| Findings that many unconscious people may be aware is a wake-up call | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: How to make a roaming robot | |
| Discover the artist who builds tiny worlds with basic chemistry | |
| Working hypothesis: from Raspberry Pi to abolishing time | |
| Claire Burke on using thermal drone tech to protect orangutans | |
| Feedback: Lack of territory is no barrier to space nation pioneers | |
| Puzzle #09: The Cake and the Candles | |
| Quick Crossword #34 | |
| The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth's mass extinctions | |
| Shocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious | |
| Don't miss: ethereal artworks, haunted teens and a gift of tongues | |
| The Extinction Rebellion book is short on science but big on action | |
| How palaeontology got cool: Inside the revolution in dinosaur science | |
| The sad tale of the US Navy's surplus military dolphins | |
| Several IVF attempts can signal higher risk for any eventual pregnancy | |
| Bystander effect: Famous psychology result could be completely wrong | |
| AIs that diagnose diseases are starting to assist and replace doctors | |
| The north pole is moving and if it flips, life on Earth is in trouble | |
| I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move | |
| Will robots take my job? No, but they will break it into tiny bits | |
| UK has halved air pollution deaths since 1970 but must still do more | |
| Non-addictive CRISPR-edited tobacco could help eliminate smoking | |
| Exposure to air pollution seems to negatively affect women's fertility | |
| An Arctic fox made an epic 4400-kilometre-long journey over sea ice | |
| Second world war bomb explodes after three-quarters of a century | |
| IVF success rates peak as only one in four attempts achieve pregnancy | |
| Solar farms could be wildlife havens that tackle biodiversity crisis | |
| Unique chance to confirm methane spikes â and perhaps life â on Mars | |
| Gut bacteria might influence how our brains develop as children | |
| Mars meteorite assault stopped 500 million years earlier than thought | |
| Can your gut bacteria really make you a better runner? | |
| Storing sperm in a freezer for a decade hardly affects birth rates | |
| Freezing embryos doesn't boost IVF success rate despite common use | |
| Vegetables as well as meat could spread superbugs into food chain | |
| Hundreds of orcas hold an annual meeting and now we may know why | |
| AI learns to gamble illogically like humans to predict our behaviour | |
| The US is making digital camouflage so that AIs canât spot spy planes | |
| NASA is going back to the moon but most people in the US don't want to | |
| Death of mother prompts adolescent chimps to look after their siblings | |
| Artificial intelligence could spot early signs of schizophrenia | |
| We are more likely to return a lost wallet if it is full of cash | |
| Seals have been trained to sing the Star Wars theme - have a listen | |
| SpaceX is about to launch a sail propelled through space by sunshine | |
| Weâre living through a climate emergency. Time to start acting like it | |
| Weird whale may be a hybrid of a narwhal mother and beluga father | |
| Japan wants to launch the first ever rover to visit a Martian moon | |
| Weather forecasts could soon pin extreme events on climate change | |
| Rare footage of a beaver gnawing through a tree in North Yorkshire | |
| US suicide rate at its highest since the end of the second world war | |
| Spy satellite images reveal Himalaya glacier ice losses have doubled | |
| Ancient Celts were partial to beer, mead and imported Greek wines | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Robotic fish powered by electronic blood can swim for 36 hours | |
| Working hypothesis: From DJ sets in space to ancient bagels | |
| Yazılıkaya: A 3000-year-old Hittite mystery may finally be solved | |
| Extreme temperatures melt sea ice in Greenland | |
| Our astonishing brain is hard to figure out â and that's fantastic | |
| Labelling people "anti-vaxxers" ignores real roots of their concerns | |
| Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks | |
| Feedback: Can the US resist the might of the metric system? | |
| Puzzle #08 Prisoners locked up | |
| Cryptic Crossword #09 | |
| How to use a BBC micro:bit to make a sound-activated mirror ball | |
| How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets | |
| Chernobyl and The Terror docu-dramas expose horror's many faces | |
| Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street | |
| What will your digital footprint tell people about you when you die? | |
| The pioneering podcast that's breaking the silence on women's health | |
| This South American potoo bird can camouflage itself as a branch | |
| Religion must rise to the challenge of climate change too | |
| How Watch Dogs Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 probe our dystopian fears | |
| ESA plans triple spacecraft to lurk in wait for a speedy comet | |
| Floppy eared bunnies look cute but they suffer more health problems | |
| Explaining consciousness and the other biggest mysteries of your brain | |
| Seals consciously reduce blood flow to their blubber before diving | |
| People with narcolepsy may be more creative because of how they sleep | |
| A severe autoimmune condition may be triggered by 'good' gut bacteria | |
| Libra: What is Facebook's new cryptocurrency and can we trust it? | |
| OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu | |
| Prisoners in China are still being used as organ donors, says inquiry | |
| Facebook plans to launch a new cryptocurrency called Libra | |
| Dogs evolved a special muscle that lets them make puppy dog eyes | |
| Does people power make a difference? The truth about protests | |
| Microbes from farms may protect children from asthma even in cities | |
| Everything you need to know about the hospital food listeria outbreak | |
| Our galaxy's central black hole is oddly quiet â now we may know why | |
| The musicians helping make climate change a cultural movement | |
| How to make the perfect crêpe according to fluid dynamics | |
| Superweeds are on the brink of becoming resistant to all weedkillers | |
| High-tech vertical farming is on the rise â but is it any greener? | |
| The Science of Storytelling is an essential guide to our own minds | |
| Strange fat cells in our bones grow rather than shrink when we starve | |
| We may be witnessing the birth of an exomoon around a distant world | |
| UK could use hydrogen instead of natural gas â if it can make enough | |
| More than half of all Ebola outbreaks are going undetected | |
| Gut microbes interfere with Parkinson's drug - but we could stop them | |
| Ethnic minority children are exposed to more noise pollution at school | |
| Two hours a week spent outdoors in nature linked with better health | |
| Europaâs salty surface may indicate an ocean thatâs good for life | |
| Tombs in China reveal humans were smoking cannabis 2500 years ago | |
| Another team has used 'jumping genes' to upgrade CRISPR gene editing | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Who should pay when medical drugs become too expensive to buy? | |
| Feedback: What did big tech find when it looked inside a black hole? | |
| Godzilla: King of the Monsters reveals our obsession with radiation | |
| Don't miss: Celebrity prisons, virtual thrills and a dive under Paris | |
| Dark matter can't be seen, so this gallery is making it sing | |
| Fate vs free will: A new book clarifies the determinism debate | |
| How climate change is hitting crab hunting in the mangroves of Brazil | |
| How Star Trekâs warp drives touch on one of physics' biggest mysteries | |
| End the scandalous male data bias that determines women's health | |
| Working Hypothesis: From Finlandâs climate action to a rival Chernobyl | |
| Carbon farming scientist David Reay on repaying his emissions debt | |
| Puzzle #07: Amveriricâs boat | |
| Quick crossword #33 | |
| How to make a theremin with a light sensor | |
| Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross | |
| Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet | |
| Norway to sell off fossil fuel stocks worth more than $8 billion | |
| A robot has learned to use irony and now people like it more | |
| Bronze Age British settlement burned down a year after being built | |
| Artificial Scottish islands are thousands of years older than thought | |
| Robotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad | |
| How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000 | |
| Baby pterosaurs may have hatched ready to fly right out of the egg | |
| UK commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 | |
| Inside the audacious mission to map every microbe in Australia | |
| A drug may prevent Alzheimerâs but there are no plans to find out | |
| Cloud gaming may be great for gamers but bad for energy consumption | |
| Crisp packets made of a new material could be much easier to recycle | |
| AIs seem to be much worse at recognising objects from poorer countries | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| People with gambling problems seem to spend more on in-game loot boxes | |
| Humans have driven nearly 600 plant species to extinction since 1750s | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Carnivorous pitcher plants are regularly eating vertebrate animals | |
| Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans | |
| How your body processes food is only partially down to your genes | |
| 3D-printed replica heads are being used to help treat cancer patients | |
| Lizards' grip became ten times stronger after hurricane Maria | |
| Fake news generating AIs could be the best weapons to fight fake news | |
| NASA will let people pay to stay on the International Space Station | |
| Some trees can change sex and are more likely to die when female | |
| A generic drug from Argentina offers cystic fibrosis families hope | |
| AI predicts USA are favourites to win the 2019 Womenâs World Cup | |
| Huge asteroid that hit the moon may be preserved below the surface | |
| Anyone can now play with sophisticated AIs thanks to a desktop app | |
| 52-million-year-old fossils suggest oak relatives evolved in the south | |
| Powerful CRISPR upgrade uses 'jumping genes' to directly insert DNA | |
| Plan to remove hen harrier eggs and raise them in captivity criticised | |
| Brainless fungi trade resources with plants like a stock market | |
| Bizarre pentaquark turns out to be a new kind of subatomic 'molecule' | |
| Creating an AI can be five times worse for the planet than a car | |
| A weird star just rapidly dimmed for a few days and we don't know why | |
| Plastic pollution found at every depth of the ocean by deep-sea survey | |
| Is it true climate change will cause the end of civilisation by 2050? | |
| Vital global climate monitoring scheme axed on remote UK island | |
| Oozing white mucus from giant salamanders makes excellent medical glue | |
| Thirsty koalas need bowls of water to survive increasingly hot climate | |
| There's a fundamental limit to the amount of energy our bodies can use | |
| Children's teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia | |
| Hydrogen has a dirty secret â let's not think it's always a green fuel | |
| Feedback: Are new straw laws just grasping at straws? | |
| Experimental sci-fi expertly captures colliding realities | |
| Donât miss: Renaissance investigations, social insights and space cops | |
| Want to stop climate change? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy | |
| Meet the Ghostbusters monster that could floor a tyrannosaur | |
| Why the truth about our sugar intake isn't as bad as we are told | |
| Genetic testing companies should not trade science for marketing | |
| Working hypothesis: From Pokémon Sleep to David Camerson | |
| No cancer risk from night shifts | |
| AI gamer is a great team player | |
| Fracking with CO2 unlikely to be green | |
| Expert maker Zoe Laughlin talks back-garden Olympics and Dolly Parton | |
| Puzzle #06 Darts challenge | |
| Cryptic crossword #08 | |
| How to program a device that plays with random numbers | |
| Humans should worry us more than machines, says founding father of AI | |
| How teabags became a secret weapon in the fight against climate change | |
| How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness | |
| AI camera worn by gulls captures video highlights of their lives | |
| Dragonfish have 'invisible' teeth to help them sneak up on their prey | |
| World's largest sky survey calls SpaceX Starlink a 'nuisance' | |
| This Tank Man image from Tiananmen Square heralded a new digital age | |
| Australia could start exporting sunshine in the form of hydrogen | |
| We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own | |
| Climate change may mean heavy rain falls in the early morning | |
| New prime minister Boris Johnsonâs climate change record | |
| What Years and Years gets right about the future | |
| Science could learn a lot from Mona Chalabiâs mischievous chart art | |
| Donald Trump and Theresa May discuss climate change, Huawei and trade | |
| Will the UK use a legal loophole to hit government climate targets? | |
| Stem cell patch may help repair damage caused by heart attacks | |
| Apple reveals new privacy and security features for iPhones | |
| The planets might control the sun's activity - and it's not astrology | |
| Early farmers liked alcohol so much they invented two ways to brew it | |
| Elephants can judge the quantity of hidden food just by using smell | |
| Two brain-rejuvenating proteins have been identified in young blood | |
| Tool-use became widespread 10,000 years earlier than we thought | |
| Astronomy group calls for urgent action on SpaceX Starlink satellites | |
| Plastic producers urged to take responsibility for "nurdle" pollution | |
| CRISPR babies might live shorter lives due to their gene mutations | |
| Your gut bacteria may influence whether you get drug side effects | |
| Using a meditation app each day may improve your memory and attention | |
| Quantum leaps are real â and now we can control them | |
| Uncrewed deep-sea robots will help map the worldâs oceans | |
| NASA has selected three lunar landers to bring science to the moon | |
| Ancient Roman air pollution caused climate change in Europe | |
| New Zealand wants to make people happy, not rich - will it work? | |
| Sea creature uses stem cells to regrow entire body from a tiny piece | |
| Koala conservation goes high-tech with virtual reality and drones | |
| A type of African mole rat is immune to the pain caused by wasabi | |
| DeepMind's AI gamer is a better teammate than human players | |
| Wild bees' nest made entirely out of plastic discovered in Argentina | |
| Damaged sense of smell fixed in mice by squirting stem cells up nose | |
| Could fracking with carbon dioxide instead of water be greener? | |
| Most atheists believe in the supernatural, despite trusting science | |
| Pluto is coloured red by ammonia spewing from underneath its surface | |
| Hundreds of puffins are starving to death because of climate change | |
| Smart glove works out what youâre holding from its weight and shape | |
| Working hypothesis: from buzzwords to Amazon workers | |
| Keeping cool with wood | |
| Chimps' ingenuity earns them a treat | |
| Women less likely to receive CPR | |
| Getting a little more sunlight is a simple health win for everyone | |
| Tana Joseph: The Hubble Space Telescope hooked me on science | |
| The secret of dark matter could be a particle the size of a planet | |
| The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imagined | |
| Surviving Mars lets you enjoy the highs and lows of building a colony | |
| Don't miss: X-Men antics, hunting dark matter and taking on Glorkon | |
| The mysterious diseases killing starfish, sea fans and shellfish | |
| Beavers, natureâs master engineers, may run wild in Wales again | |
| From the archives: Floating charge curtains to heal the ozone layer | |
| Forget rampant killer robots: AIâs real danger is far more insidious | |
| Singapore's ban on fake news sets a dangerous precedent | |
| Feedback: And the gong goes to the zombie climate apocalypse | |
| Puzzle #05 Murphyâs law of socks | |
| Quick Crossword #32 | |
| How to make a propeller buggy with a motor, a bottle and some straws | |
| What makes a good smell? Inside a multibillion dollar aromatic mystery | |
| Stalled jet stream has caused two weeks of tornadoes in the US | |
| Brain scans reveal magic mushroom drug enhances mindfulness meditation | |
| NASA is running a competition to figure out how to settle the galaxy | |
| Should you give your data to a period tracker or smart breast pump? | |
| Working night shifts may not raise your breast cancer risk after all | |
| Family to be deported from Australia because son has cystic fibrosis | |
| Superfog can cause fatal car accidents and now we know how it forms | |
| DNA coated with silica could store masses of data in a single gram | |
| How getting more daylight can improve your mental and physical health | |
| No one can be truly anonymous ever again thanks to genetic sequencing | |
| What do the European Parliament results mean for climate change? | |
| SpaceXâs bright Starlink satellites are upsetting astronomers | |
| Breast cancer spreads through the body in just two or three waves | |
| African elephant poaching is falling at last - but it's still too high | |
| Conservative Party leader contenders: Ex-health minister Jeremy Hunt | |
| Even dim candlelight before bed is bright enough to disrupt sleep | |
| Monkeys use their 'eagle' call to warn each other about drones | |
| Minecraft competition will challenge AIs to become expert engineers | |
| Rage, tech and Miley Cyrus: What the new Black Mirror will bring | |
| Earth's methane emissions are rising and we don't know why | |
| The oceans are very slowly draining into the rock below Earth's crust | |
| Organic matter from space preserved in 3.3-billion-year-old rocks | |
| Drones flown straight at aircraft to test collision avoidance tech | |
| NASA picks Maxar to build the first piece of its lunar space station | |
| High-tech wood could keep homes cool by reflecting the sunâs rays | |
| The tiniest fish are the most important for healthy coral reefs | |
| Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space | |
| The backlash against face recognition has begun â but who will win? | |
| SpaceX is launching 60 satellites to start its global internet scheme | |
| Chimpanzees eat tortoises after smashing them open on tree trunks | |
| Robots conduct daily health inspections of schoolchildren in China | |
| Polarisation on social media could be reduced with a few simple tweaks | |
| The average animal will be 10 per cent smaller in the next century | |
| Populist gains in Euro elections donât need to derail climate action | |
| Deaths from strokes in England have halved in just a decade | |
| Gut microbes may determine whether infants develop food allergies | |
| Specially created animal 'cancer avatars' could personalise treatments | |
| China confirmed as source of illegal ozone-destroying chemicals | |
| Working hypothesis: From Japanese phone numbers to Woody Harrelson | |
| If Australia and Europe fail to act on climate they risk their future | |
| Netflixâs Osmosis creates a world of terror amid the high-tech love | |
| Rise in colon cancer seen in under-50s | |
| Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on why we laugh and a love of thermostats | |
| Feedback: Life, liberty and the pursuit of manly beverages | |
| Puzzle #04 Which door? | |
| Cryptic crossword #07 | |
| How to make a desktop traffic light with a breadboard | |
| How antibiotic resistance is driven by pharmaceutical pollution | |
| By Jupiter! How the solar systemâs giant made Earth ripe for life | |
| Donât miss: Godzillaâs return, universal numbers and escaping ships | |
| Celebrate the moon with the best films, books and festivals | |
| The moon revealed as an object of endless fascination and desire | |
| We need to talk about how population growth is harming the planet | |
| Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science | |
| New Scientist Debate: emerging threats from disruptive technologies | |
| Drone can transform into a tiny car to slide under small gaps | |
| High Lifeâs sex and black holes sci-fi intrigues without satisfying | |
| Lyme disease is spreading across the US but your dog can help track it | |
| The truth about lie detectors: They don't work and never have | |
| The parenting myth: How kids are raised matters less than you think | |
| 2019 European elections: How to vote if you care about climate change | |
| The young sun spun slowly, which could explain why we are here | |
| Women who have cardiac arrests are more likely to die than men | |
| Plastic straws will be banned in England from April 2020 | |
| Chimps that mash potatoes challenge our understanding of tool use | |
| DNA from mummy's tomb reveals ancient Egyptian origins of watermelon | |
| Contaminated blood scandal: Could some deaths have been prevented? | |
| Turning CO2 into animal feed could make it greener for us to eat meat | |
| Putting a bird feeder in your garden really does help wildlife | |
| How to be a maker: The complete list of all you need | |
| UK's controversial use of face recognition to be challenged in court | |
| Older people use more energy - and it's not just because of wealth | |
| Sea level rise could hit 2 metres by 2100 - much worse than feared | |
| How Willem Einthoven gave doctors a window on the heart | |
| Who should I vote for in the 2019 European elections? | |
| Bonobo mothers stand guard and chase off rivals while their sons mate | |
| Pluto has an underground ocean kept warm by a layer of gassy ice | |
| DNA database opts a million people out from police searches | |
| Weird physical illusion makes you think objects are impossibly light | |
| How did pollsters get the Australian election result so wrong? | |
| Sabre-toothed cats bit rivals in the head and punctured their skulls | |
| Blacklisting Huawei from Android upgrades will end up hurting Google | |
| The kilogram has been transformed as new definition takes hold | |
| Some baby dinosaurs crawled before learning to walk on two legs | |
| Mini universes could be constantly exploding at every point in space | |
| I went hunting for willow seeds in the home of Winnie-the-Pooh | |
| Funding crisis threatens crucial UK ocean monitoring project | |
| Aaaaaargh! The true nature of screaming has finally been revealed | |
| No, koalas are not 'functionally extinct', but they are in trouble | |
| Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau) | |
| Digital camera sees around corners by guessing what's lurking behind | |
| Sea otters are bouncing back - and into the jaws of great white sharks | |
| Compulsory vaccines are needed to keep measles under control in the UK | |
| Squished faces arenât the only cause of bulldog breathing difficulties | |
| Peasants in medieval England ate a diet of meat stew and cheese | |
| Our pick of Venice Biennale 2019's most scientific artworks | |
| Alabamaâs extreme new law could lead to an end of US abortion rights | |
| Could geoengineering really help us solve the climate crisis? | |
| China wants to make the fastest planes ever with a new material | |
| Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery to focus on anti-evolution treatments | |
| The quest for better snakebite treatments gets a funding boost | |
| Hearing device picks out right voice from a crowd by reading your mind | |
| Smartphone app that chirps in your ear could diagnose ear infections | |
| Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought? | |
| China's rover peeks under the crust of the far side of the moon | |
| The story behind immunotherapyâs innovative cellular voyage | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Selfish motives must not imperil the new space age | |
| Working hypothesis: From deepfake Dali to black toothpaste | |
| From the archives: How a cosmic illusion proved Einsteinâs relativity | |
| Axions may or may not exist - but we're not just making things up | |
| We need to rediscover the wonder of space exploration to save Earth | |
| Becoming a maker: How switches can bring you piping hot toast | |
| Physicist Kate Shaw on Higgs bosons and how reality is an illusion | |
| Feedback: Are we dog-walking into a surveillance state? | |
| Puzzle #03 Cube shadow | |
| Crossword #31 | |
| The world's supply of rubber is in jeopardy. Can we find new sources? | |
| Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today? | |
| Why films like Avengers: Endgame can get away with time travel tricks | |
| Don't miss: Apollo 11 recalled, mapping galaxies and a space thriller | |
| Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality | |
| Deadly air pollution illuminated in beautiful long-exposure photograph | |
| Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US? | |
| Elon Musk's SpaceX or a superpower: Who'll win the new space race? | |
| Climate change may make trees live fast and die young | |
| NHS hospital to trial genetic analysis for blood pressure patients | |
| Free-floating DNA to reveal the health of river and lake ecosystems | |
| Shining a UV light on a special glue can repair heart wounds | |
| NASA to get an extra $1.6 billion to put the first woman on the moon | |
| You should update WhatsApp to avoid a surveillance vulnerability | |
| Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables | |
| AI doesn't see the world like us which is why it is so easily confused | |
| Apollo-era moonquakes suggest lunar colonies must be shake-proof | |
| Bacteria could identify month-old suspicious stains at crime scenes | |
| Make a shape-shifting tablet with touchscreens that click together | |
| Georgios Papanikolaou: inventor of the Pap smear cervical cancer test | |
| Titanâs seas may be coated in organic goop that stops waves forming | |
| A simple experiment could help find alien life on Europa | |
| Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power | |
| AI recommends 'fashionable' outfits to millions of people in China | |
| The universe is 2.5 billion times less magnetic than a fridge magnet | |
| Directors are using virtual reality on set to find the perfect shot | |
| How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite | |
| Instagram is attempting to crack down on misinformation about vaccines | |
| Every country worldwide is now using the most effective polio vaccine | |
| Jeff Bezos announces plans for delivery service to the moon by 2024 | |
| A quarter of people who meditate experience negative mental states | |
| Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision | |
| My liver, your kidney: The world's first non-identical organ swap | |
| It may become impossible to tell if Iran starts making a nuclear bomb | |
| Penguin and seal dung nourishes organisms that are kilometres away | |
| Chimpanzees observed ganging up on a leopard and stealing its food | |
| Voice assistants seem to be worse at understanding commands from women | |
| Some UK coastal communities may have to move because of climate change | |
| Hormone treatment may help prevent miscarriages in some pregnancies | |
| Underwater tests reveal sharks may be smarter than you think | |
| Uber and Lyft increased traffic delays in San Francisco by 40 percent | |
| Humans have interfered with most of the world's greatest rivers | |
| How sci-fi like Frankissstein helps us face our fears of the future | |
| Working hypothesis: From space deliveries to dirty money | |
| Lightning strike may have led to Aeroflot plane crash in Moscow | |
| Climate change is an emergency we can solve | |
| Puzzle #02: Getting past the freight train | |
| How to make a reading light and learn about circuits | |
| Cryptic crossword #06 | |
| Why 'Martian' Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet | |
| Feedback: Why Spiderman could be the best cure for arachnophobia | |
| True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines | |
| Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet | |
| Don't miss: untamed tech, a changing China and food for thought | |
| Underland is a profound journey into the mirror world of the dead | |
| How squirrels use their tails to square up to deadly cobras | |
| The idea that there are only 100 harvests left is just a fantasy | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Are heat-not-burn tobacco products a safer alternative to cigarettes? | |
| Thousands of people in Finland to receive genetic health predictions | |
| UK goes a week without coal but the renewables revolution is stalling | |
| 4D knitting makes rabbits that cuddle and lampshades that move | |
| Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades | |
| Scientists dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate lifeâs origins | |
| Fast radio bursts: We're finally decoding messages from deep space | |
| Wasps are the first invertebrates seen to use a type of logic | |
| Ancient Greek method for finding prime numbers just got an upgrade | |
| A small YouTube design change could drastically cut its CO2 emissions | |
| Astronauts may have vision problems because of liquid in their brains | |
| Traces of five drugs found on 1000-year-old South American ritual kit | |
| Kids can make sceptical parents change their minds on climate change | |
| We've found the medium-sized tyrannosaurs that came before T. rex | |
| Loss of the UKâs ash trees due to fungal disease may cost £15 billion | |
| Destruction of nature is as big a threat to humanity as climate change | |
| Monkeys seem to prefer each other's company after a scary experience | |
| Weâve spotted a strange asteroid thatâs spinning itself to pieces | |
| HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe | |
| Cobalt for 500,000 electric cars could be harvested from the oceans | |
| Genetic variants may put some athletes at higher risk of sudden death | |
| Climate change may turn octopuses partially blind from lack of oxygen | |
| Pollution-proof fish borrow genes from relatives to survive toxins | |
| Did Netflixâs 13 Reasons Why really increase suicide rates? | |
| Ebola outbreak in the DRC hits record number of cases in a single day | |
| Pandas gobble as much protein as polar bears despite being vegetarian | |
| Two molecules could give us finer control over CRISPR gene editing | |
| Older bees pass on immunity-boosting molecules to other bees in jelly | |
| Why the UKâs grand plan to stop gadgets turning against us is flawed | |
| US Navy tests underwater robots that recharge by eating fish faeces | |
| Huge mega-rafts carried dinosaur-era animals on round-the-world trips | |
| Seven charts that explain what net zero emissions means for the UK | |
| UK government told to adopt world's most ambitious climate target | |
| UK climate report: What your life could be like in a low-carbon future | |
| Eczema-associated bacteria may be kept in check by a different microbe | |
| Surprisingly wet asteroid dust could spark a rethink of Earth's water | |
| Hormone therapy may improve some symptoms of autism | |
| Hippos poop a huge amount of silicon every day â and itâs a good thing | |
| How cell therapy innovation is changing cancer treatment | |
| Introducing this weekâs new-look New Scientist magazine | |
| Signs of human climate change influence on drought traced back to 1900 | |
| It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber | |
| Meet the white-tailed eagles making a comeback in the UK | |
| From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space? | |
| How hacked rental e-scooters could be the future of street crime | |
| Is there anything we can do to stop Greenland from turning green? | |
| Working hypothesis: From slow ramblers to asteroid Ryugu | |
| Marcus du Sautoy: How maths blows my mind â and how it will save us | |
| Feedback: Advertisers set their sights on the night sky | |
| Puzzle #01: The Book of Numbers | |
| Quick Crossword #30 | |
| Want to build robots and invent stuff? Here's where to start | |
| The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere | |
| Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar | |
| How games like Assassin's Creed give us a feel for history | |
| Don't miss: cutting edge AI, Kubrick in 4K and our marvellous moon | |
| We still don't know how some animals find their way on huge migrations | |
| The psychology of magic and how it plays with our minds | |
| Major discovery suggests Denisovans lived in Tibet 160,000 years ago | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Narwhals are thriving despite extremely low genetic diversity | |
| Taking on tech giants: Can anyone stop Facebook, Amazon and Google? | |
| The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry | |
| Exclusive: AI to monitor UK roads for accidents or unusual behaviour | |
| Huge whales may have evolved millions of years earlier than we thought | |
| Prehistoric predator fossils found in an underwater cave in Mexico | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar | |
| Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia | |
| Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find | |
| Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds | |
| A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we donât know why | |
| Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star | |
| Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar | |
| Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia | |
| Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find | |
| Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds | |
| A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we donât know why | |
| Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star | |
| Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there | |
| The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earthâs entire surface | |
| An Indian village has many more twins than can be explained | |
| Does fracking for gas have a future in the UK after key resignation? | |
| Beluga whale with harness was trained by Russia, claim scientists | |
| Cyclone Kenneth is one of the strongest storms to hit mainland Africa | |
| Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word | |
| Sensors made from gummy bears could monitor how children chew | |
| How did the ancient Egyptians catch and mummify millions of ibises? | |
| Facebook announces plans to combat misinformation during EU elections | |
| Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future | |
| Peanut allergy immunotherapy may actually do more harm than good | |
| Extremely fast winds and high waves are now happening more often | |
| The truth about the QWERTY keyboard | |
| Have people in the UK really been banned from shooting wood pigeons? | |
| AI learns to paint in the styles of Van Gogh, Turner and Vermeer | |
| Google has created a maths AI that has already proved 1200 theorems | |
| The science behind Extinction Rebellionâs three climate change demands | |
| Neanderthals may have prized golden eagle claws for symbolic value | |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 bombed an asteroid and took pictures of the crater | |
| Thereâs little evidence that a Huawei 5G ban is the right approach | |
| Glaciers contain radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests and accidents | |
| 21 million children miss first dose of measles vaccine every year | |
| Robotic tube for surgery autonomously navigates inside a beating heart | |
| Chinaâs efforts to cut pollution in Beijing may make it worse overall | |
| Foragers may have settled in the Amazon 10,000 years ago | |
| âRule-breakingâ crab fossils have weird shrimp and lobster features | |
| Over 400 languages spoken today may have originated in northern China | |
| Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech | |
| Samsung folding phone delayed after reviewers break them too easily | |
| Anti-ageing has often been seen as quack science. Not any more | |
| Climate is an emergency: Let's not leave action to activists | |
| Cryptic Crossword #5 | |
| Vineyards sit in moon-like craters on a volcano in Lanzarote | |
| Feedback: In case of emergency, make mine a latte | |
| The great wonder and strangeness of the human brain | |
| Don't miss: celestial bodies, mathematical beauty and sci-fi fun | |
| The psychological dark side of sharing your daily life on YouTube | |
| Machine mind hack: The new threat that could scupper the AI revolution | |
| Clever chemistry could make fertiliser with a smaller carbon footprint | |
| Oldest woman ever or impostor? The controversial case of Calment | |
| Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer | |
| Reef halo riddle: What's behind the mysterious rings around coral? | |
| NASAâs InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes | |
| Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers | |
| The UK has already had more wildfires in 2019 than any year on record | |
| Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests | |
| SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lost after 'anomaly' during ground test | |
| Coal-free spells are good, but the UK is falling short of carbon goals | |
| Satellites are checking if boats in remote places are fishing legally | |
| Australiaâs dingoes may keep feral cats in check and protect wildlife | |
| UK government directs £4.6 million to tackling illegal wildlife trade | |
| Huge dinosaur may have stood on its toes with fleshy pads for balance | |
| Baby boom for the kakapo, New Zealandâs critically endangered parrot | |
| If Mars has life, its total mass is 10,000 times smaller than Earthâs | |
| Zero-gravity robot cleaner could automatically sterilise the ISS | |
| How maths could fix the problems with Indiaâs voting machines | |
| An interstellar rock may have hit Earth in 2014 but nobody noticed | |
| AI that spots inequality could monitor living conditions in cities | |
| Dog owners are more likely to get the recommended amount of exercise | |
| BBC Earth from Space: satellite images give new view on conservation | |
| Climate protesters want net zero carbon emissions - is it possible? | |
| Macronâs pledge to rebuild Notre Dame in five years may be possible | |
| We must all work to avoid disputes over the care of very ill children | |
| A virus we thought was harmless to humans may worsen cystic fibrosis | |
| Viewing media coverage of traumatic events may fuel long-term distress | |
| Ancient urine reveals early prehistory of domestic sheep and goats | |
| Weâve found the first type of molecule to form after the big bang | |
| Pig brains have been partly revived after death - what does this mean? | |
| Gun that launches cord to wrap around assailant used for first time | |
| What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole? | |
| Black hole breakthrough: a lot done, much more to do | |
| From the archives 20 years ago: the great phone cancer scare | |
| Magnificent pumas photographed in snowstorms and whilst catching prey | |
| Feedback: Why replicate an experiment when you can flip a coin? | |
| Must we topple Einstein to let physics leap forward again? | |
| Don't miss: Kubrick's genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion | |
| Protein mania: The problem with the Westâs latest diet obsession | |
| Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society | |
| Why Ian McEwan doesnât see his latest novel as being science fiction | |
| Notre Dameâs stonework isnât flammable but may be structurally damaged | |
| Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them | |
| Sex-selective abortions may have stopped the birth of 23 million girls | |
| Measles has made a shocking return to the US. Can it be stopped? | |
| Why electric cars are a hot topic in Australia's forthcoming election | |
| Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa? | |
| Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity | |
| Our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet | |
| Saturnâs moon Titan has an alien lake district that looks like Earth | |
| There is water just under the surface of the moon that we could use | |
| Pristine mountains are being littered with microplastics from the air | |
| The 2018 heatwave may not have been possible without climate change | |
| A touchy-feely part of the brain helps you enjoy a gentle caress | |
| Prescriptions for UTIs may be making antibiotic resistance even worse | |
| Facebook and Instagram may have to remove like buttons for UK children | |
| BBC climate doc adviser: Earth is sending us really powerful messages | |
| David Attenborough finally talks climate change in prime time BBC slot | |
| Scientists must worry in public about the dangers of their creations | |
| How do you name a black hole? It is actually pretty complicated | |
| How hackers use tricks to make money from your clicks | |
| NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space | |
| SpaceXâs Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight | |
| Even remote mountain glaciers are contaminated with microplastics | |
| Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon | |
| What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home? | |
| Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed | |
| First black hole picture: The big mysteries we still need to solve | |
| First 3-parent baby born in clinical trial to treat infertility | |
| A gene linked to alcohol habits may influence who you choose to marry | |
| Millions of child asthma cases linked to traffic pollution every year | |
| Everything you need to know about the first black hole image | |
| Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry | |
| Earth's past and future ice | |
| We have zero tolerance for unclean water. Air should be no different | |
| A mission to Alpha Centauri affirms humanity's faith in the future | |
| Feedback: The pope does his best to minimise the spread of disease | |
| Quick crossword #29 | |
| The science skills most in demand | |
| Donât miss: Earth from space, asteroid workouts and natureâs giants | |
| Weâre being overwhelmed by a deluge of insignificant decisions | |
| A planet of nearly 8 billion people needs a new kind of green thinking | |
| The forgotten riches of the most densely biodiverse country on Earth | |
| Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar | |
| Wood under the microscope shows mistletoe invasions and tangled cells | |
| New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines | |
| First ever real image of a black hole revealed | |
| We could solve the biggest problem in maths in the next decade | |
| The world's largest stone circle started out as a humble ancient home | |
| A four-day work week could improve our health and cut carbon emissions | |
| We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life | |
| Salmonella can hijack immune cells to spread around the body | |
| You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system | |
| Promising treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome fails large trial | |
| Flying cars could be greener than electric ones in some circumstances | |
| Climate change means nearly all glaciers in the Alps may disappear | |
| Antarctica team to search world's oldest ice for climate change clues | |
| LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on | |
| Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles | |
| AI could monitor farms from space to look for illegal pollution | |
| 3D facial analysis could help identify children with rare conditions | |
| First ever picture of a black hole may be revealed this week | |
| UK wants to curb fake news and cyberbullying with new internet laws | |
| NASA says the International Space Station is covered in bacteria | |
| ULEZ: London is cleaning up its dirty air but what about other cities? | |
| Doctors in China are using 5G internet to do surgery from far away | |
| Stunningly realistic video game visuals made by simulating light rays | |
| Telling us to stop washing our hands is dangerous and unacceptable | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 spacecraft just bombed an asteroid | |
| Snowflakes are making the Arctic warm faster by acting like a blanket | |
| A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system | |
| Scotland's HPV vaccine linked to 'near elimination' of cervical cancer | |
| Amazing four-legged fossil shows how walking whales learned to swim | |
| Had a genetic test? You should be told if its implications change | |
| David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty | |
| DeepMind created a maths AI that can add up to 6 but gets 7 wrong | |
| Pet cats know their names they just sometimes prefer to ignore you | |
| People with autism are less likely to fall for an out-of-body illusion | |
| The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to recover from bleaching | |
| NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era | |
| Itâs time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness | |
| Eurasian hoopoes protect their eggs with a dark foul-smelling goo | |
| Feedback: China plans to clone Sherlock to help sniff out super crooks | |
| From the archives: When oil turned Alaska's coastline black | |
| Speaking at least one other language may make us more humane | |
| Don't miss: Visualising inequality, space comms and a rare pregnancy | |
| Most animals canât keep a beat despite what Darwin believed | |
| A chimp's hug shows it's time to accept that animals have feelings too | |
| The Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why | |
| It's not an illusion, you have free will. It's just not what you think | |
| Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate | |
| Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human | |
| Albino lizards are the worldâs first genetically modified reptiles | |
| Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024 | |
| The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind | |
| Windows made of transparent wood could help keep buildings warm | |
| The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini | |
| Health regulator takes step towards lifting vaginal mesh implant ban | |
| Landslides have increased by 6000 per cent on an Arctic island | |
| Consider your childâs future before you share that âhilariousâ image | |
| UK plan to stop under-18s seeing pornography online is delayed again | |
| Pre-eclampsia blood test could help diagnose the condition earlier | |
| AI achieves its best ever mark on a set of English exam questions | |
| We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought | |
| Incredible fossil find may be first victims of dino-killer asteroid | |
| Teslaâs autopilot tricked into driving on the wrong side of the road | |
| Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars | |
| Smart pyjamas could detect why you're not sleeping well | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar | |
| Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia | |
| Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find | |
| Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar | |
| Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia | |
| Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find | |
| Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds | |
| A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we donât know why | |
| Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star | |
| Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there | |
| The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earthâs entire surface | |
| An Indian village has many more twins than can be explained | |
| Does fracking for gas have a future in the UK after key resignation? | |
| Beluga whale with harness was trained by Russia, claim scientists | |
| Cyclone Kenneth is one of the strongest storms to hit mainland Africa | |
| Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word | |
| Sensors made from gummy bears could monitor how children chew | |
| How did the ancient Egyptians catch and mummify millions of ibises? | |
| Facebook announces plans to combat misinformation during EU elections | |
| Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future | |
| Peanut allergy immunotherapy may actually do more harm than good | |
| Extremely fast winds and high waves are now happening more often | |
| The truth about the QWERTY keyboard | |
| Have people in the UK really been banned from shooting wood pigeons? | |
| AI learns to paint in the styles of Van Gogh, Turner and Vermeer | |
| Google has created a maths AI that has already proved 1200 theorems | |
| The science behind Extinction Rebellionâs three climate change demands | |
| Neanderthals may have prized golden eagle claws for symbolic value | |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 bombed an asteroid and took pictures of the crater | |
| Thereâs little evidence that a Huawei 5G ban is the right approach | |
| Glaciers contain radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests and accidents | |
| 21 million children miss first dose of measles vaccine every year | |
| Robotic tube for surgery autonomously navigates inside a beating heart | |
| Chinaâs efforts to cut pollution in Beijing may make it worse overall | |
| Foragers may have settled in the Amazon 10,000 years ago | |
| âRule-breakingâ crab fossils have weird shrimp and lobster features | |
| Over 400 languages spoken today may have originated in northern China | |
| Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech | |
| Samsung folding phone delayed after reviewers break them too easily | |
| Anti-ageing has often been seen as quack science. Not any more | |
| Climate is an emergency: Let's not leave action to activists | |
| Cryptic Crossword #5 | |
| Vineyards sit in moon-like craters on a volcano in Lanzarote | |
| Feedback: In case of emergency, make mine a latte | |
| The great wonder and strangeness of the human brain | |
| Don't miss: celestial bodies, mathematical beauty and sci-fi fun | |
| The psychological dark side of sharing your daily life on YouTube | |
| Machine mind hack: The new threat that could scupper the AI revolution | |
| Clever chemistry could make fertiliser with a smaller carbon footprint | |
| Oldest woman ever or impostor? The controversial case of Calment | |
| Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer | |
| Reef halo riddle: What's behind the mysterious rings around coral? | |
| NASAâs InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes | |
| Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers | |
| The UK has already had more wildfires in 2019 than any year on record | |
| Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests | |
| SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lost after 'anomaly' during ground test | |
| Coal-free spells are good, but the UK is falling short of carbon goals | |
| Satellites are checking if boats in remote places are fishing legally | |
| Australiaâs dingoes may keep feral cats in check and protect wildlife | |
| UK government directs £4.6 million to tackling illegal wildlife trade | |
| Huge dinosaur may have stood on its toes with fleshy pads for balance | |
| Baby boom for the kakapo, New Zealandâs critically endangered parrot | |
| If Mars has life, its total mass is 10,000 times smaller than Earthâs | |
| Zero-gravity robot cleaner could automatically sterilise the ISS | |
| How maths could fix the problems with Indiaâs voting machines | |
| An interstellar rock may have hit Earth in 2014 but nobody noticed | |
| AI that spots inequality could monitor living conditions in cities | |
| Dog owners are more likely to get the recommended amount of exercise | |
| BBC Earth from Space: satellite images give new view on conservation | |
| Climate protesters want net zero carbon emissions - is it possible? | |
| Macronâs pledge to rebuild Notre Dame in five years may be possible | |
| We must all work to avoid disputes over the care of very ill children | |
| A virus we thought was harmless to humans may worsen cystic fibrosis | |
| Viewing media coverage of traumatic events may fuel long-term distress | |
| Ancient urine reveals early prehistory of domestic sheep and goats | |
| Weâve found the first type of molecule to form after the big bang | |
| Pig brains have been partly revived after death - what does this mean? | |
| Gun that launches cord to wrap around assailant used for first time | |
| What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole? | |
| Black hole breakthrough: a lot done, much more to do | |
| From the archives 20 years ago: the great phone cancer scare | |
| Magnificent pumas photographed in snowstorms and whilst catching prey | |
| Feedback: Why replicate an experiment when you can flip a coin? | |
| Must we topple Einstein to let physics leap forward again? | |
| Don't miss: Kubrick's genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion | |
| Protein mania: The problem with the Westâs latest diet obsession | |
| Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society | |
| Why Ian McEwan doesnât see his latest novel as being science fiction | |
| Notre Dameâs stonework isnât flammable but may be structurally damaged | |
| Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them | |
| Sex-selective abortions may have stopped the birth of 23 million girls | |
| Measles has made a shocking return to the US. Can it be stopped? | |
| Why electric cars are a hot topic in Australia's forthcoming election | |
| Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa? | |
| Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity | |
| Our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet | |
| Saturnâs moon Titan has an alien lake district that looks like Earth | |
| There is water just under the surface of the moon that we could use | |
| Pristine mountains are being littered with microplastics from the air | |
| The 2018 heatwave may not have been possible without climate change | |
| A touchy-feely part of the brain helps you enjoy a gentle caress | |
| Prescriptions for UTIs may be making antibiotic resistance even worse | |
| Facebook and Instagram may have to remove like buttons for UK children | |
| BBC climate doc adviser: Earth is sending us really powerful messages | |
| David Attenborough finally talks climate change in prime time BBC slot | |
| Scientists must worry in public about the dangers of their creations | |
| How do you name a black hole? It is actually pretty complicated | |
| How hackers use tricks to make money from your clicks | |
| NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space | |
| SpaceXâs Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight | |
| Even remote mountain glaciers are contaminated with microplastics | |
| Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon | |
| What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home? | |
| Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed | |
| First black hole picture: The big mysteries we still need to solve | |
| First 3-parent baby born in clinical trial to treat infertility | |
| A gene linked to alcohol habits may influence who you choose to marry | |
| Millions of child asthma cases linked to traffic pollution every year | |
| Everything you need to know about the first black hole image | |
| Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry | |
| Earth's past and future ice | |
| We have zero tolerance for unclean water. Air should be no different | |
| A mission to Alpha Centauri affirms humanity's faith in the future | |
| Feedback: The pope does his best to minimise the spread of disease | |
| Quick crossword #29 | |
| The science skills most in demand | |
| Donât miss: Earth from space, asteroid workouts and natureâs giants | |
| Weâre being overwhelmed by a deluge of insignificant decisions | |
| A planet of nearly 8 billion people needs a new kind of green thinking | |
| The forgotten riches of the most densely biodiverse country on Earth | |
| Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar | |
| Wood under the microscope shows mistletoe invasions and tangled cells | |
| New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines | |
| First ever real image of a black hole revealed | |
| We could solve the biggest problem in maths in the next decade | |
| The world's largest stone circle started out as a humble ancient home | |
| A four-day work week could improve our health and cut carbon emissions | |
| We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life | |
| Salmonella can hijack immune cells to spread around the body | |
| You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system | |
| Promising treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome fails large trial | |
| Flying cars could be greener than electric ones in some circumstances | |
| Climate change means nearly all glaciers in the Alps may disappear | |
| Antarctica team to search world's oldest ice for climate change clues | |
| LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on | |
| Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles | |
| AI could monitor farms from space to look for illegal pollution | |
| 3D facial analysis could help identify children with rare conditions | |
| First ever picture of a black hole may be revealed this week | |
| UK wants to curb fake news and cyberbullying with new internet laws | |
| NASA says the International Space Station is covered in bacteria | |
| ULEZ: London is cleaning up its dirty air but what about other cities? | |
| Doctors in China are using 5G internet to do surgery from far away | |
| Stunningly realistic video game visuals made by simulating light rays | |
| Telling us to stop washing our hands is dangerous and unacceptable | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 spacecraft just bombed an asteroid | |
| Snowflakes are making the Arctic warm faster by acting like a blanket | |
| A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system | |
| Scotland's HPV vaccine linked to 'near elimination' of cervical cancer | |
| Amazing four-legged fossil shows how walking whales learned to swim | |
| Had a genetic test? You should be told if its implications change | |
| David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty | |
| DeepMind created a maths AI that can add up to 6 but gets 7 wrong | |
| Pet cats know their names they just sometimes prefer to ignore you | |
| People with autism are less likely to fall for an out-of-body illusion | |
| The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to recover from bleaching | |
| NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era | |
| Itâs time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness | |
| Eurasian hoopoes protect their eggs with a dark foul-smelling goo | |
| Feedback: China plans to clone Sherlock to help sniff out super crooks | |
| From the archives: When oil turned Alaska's coastline black | |
| Speaking at least one other language may make us more humane | |
| Don't miss: Visualising inequality, space comms and a rare pregnancy | |
| Most animals canât keep a beat despite what Darwin believed | |
| A chimp's hug shows it's time to accept that animals have feelings too | |
| The Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why | |
| It's not an illusion, you have free will. It's just not what you think | |
| Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate | |
| Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human | |
| Albino lizards are the worldâs first genetically modified reptiles | |
| Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024 | |
| The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind | |
| Windows made of transparent wood could help keep buildings warm | |
| The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini | |
| Health regulator takes step towards lifting vaginal mesh implant ban | |
| Landslides have increased by 6000 per cent on an Arctic island | |
| Consider your childâs future before you share that âhilariousâ image | |
| UK plan to stop under-18s seeing pornography online is delayed again | |
| Pre-eclampsia blood test could help diagnose the condition earlier | |
| AI achieves its best ever mark on a set of English exam questions | |
| We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought | |
| Incredible fossil find may be first victims of dino-killer asteroid | |
| Teslaâs autopilot tricked into driving on the wrong side of the road | |
| Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars | |
| Smart pyjamas could detect why you're not sleeping well | |
| Cliffs on comet 67P wander across the landscape in summer | |
| Giant viruses have weaponised CRISPR against their bacterial hosts | |
| Venus may have had a climate suitable for life billions of years ago | |
| Water on Mars is probably too cold and salty for life as we know it | |
| Mathematicians have found a new way to multiply two numbers together | |
| Robot discovers that lying about a betrayal helps to rebuild trust | |
| We could soon make animals with cells that contain two genetic codes | |
| Nearly 100 species of frogs, toads and salamanders wiped out by fungus | |
| Climate change is making the seas rise faster than ever, UN warns | |
| A crucial population of lions has lost much of its genetic diversity | |
| Antidepressant prescriptions have reached 70 million in England | |
| Dogs can recognise the scent of someone having an epileptic seizure | |
| The waters of the Galapagos Islands are being invaded by alien species | |
| Driverless car learns to perform high-speed turns without crashing | |
| Mars used to have massive flowing rivers twice as wide as Earthâs | |
| Fridges made from plastic crystals could help cut carbon emissions | |
| Lab-grown blood vessels given to people who need dialysis | |
| Gender pay gap widens for UK scientists and engineers | |
| The UK's plan to block online pornography could be a privacy disaster | |
| The 5 biggest physics questions that LIGO's reboot could soon answer | |
| Spacecraft reveal the mysteries of the solar system's space rocks | |
| By all means back healthcare tech, but only once it is shown to work | |
| Our most pressing space mission is to clear decades of orbiting junk | |
| Images show the devastation of Cyclone Idai | |
| Feedback: Could GPS kitchenware be the solution to knife crime? | |
| Cryptic Crossword #4 | |
| Antony Gormleyâs virtual reality adventure lets you ski on the moon | |
| Don't miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia | |
| Crime-fighting botanist takes down murderers using plants | |
| Move over, DNA. Life's other code is more subtle and far more powerful | |
| Teenage psychotic experiences linked to high levels of air pollution | |
| How do you square a passion for the ocean with deep-sea mining? | |
| Maths shows that this week's Brexit votes won't solve the UK's crisis | |
| Article 13: A guide to the new EU copyright rules and the ban on memes | |
| India tests anti-satellite missile by destroying one of its satellites | |
| Politicians will have to force us to adopt climate-friendly lifestyles | |
| Thereâs so much junk in space that our satellites will soon be at risk | |
| Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA | |
| All the info our brain needs for language nearly fits on a floppy disc | |
| We've discovered a massive dinosaur-era river delta under the sea | |
| AIs go up against animals in an epic competition to test intelligence | |
| The US wants to send astronauts to the moonâs south pole in 2024 | |
| Smog may be getting worse in some cities thanks to Arctic warming | |
| A third of wild bee and hoverfly species are in decline in Britain | |
| Genome-editing record smashed with 13,000 edits made in one cell | |
| NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue | |
| The pigment in our skin could be used to make electrical body implants | |
| Global carbon emissions from energy hit a record high in 2018 | |
| Crashed Boeing 737s lacked upgrades that could have warned pilots | |
| Our brains may be able to make new neurons throughout adulthood | |
| Huge T. rex fossil suggests many dinosaurs were bigger than we thought | |
| Genetic risk scores on their own aren't that good at predicting health | |
| Exposure to dirty city air reduces sperm quality and quantity in mice | |
| NASAâs InSight lander is using magnetism to search for water on Mars | |
| Exclusive: Thousands of security flaws found on UK government websites | |
| Itâs not just reality TV - all media must help to prevent suicides | |
| Weâve found 4000 exoplanets but almost zero are right for life | |
| AI can mistakenly see cancer in medical scans after tiny image tweaks | |
| Child abuse may change brain structure and make depression worse | |
| Stunning picture shows dead star racing away from a massive explosion | |
| Jet fuel made from waste plants could be one of the most efficient yet | |
| Genetics studies are too white â thatâs failing people and science | |
| Sun bears copy each other's facial expressions to communicate | |
| Elizabeth Holmes: The hypnotic tale of the rise and fall of Theranos | |
| Robot swarm inspired by cells can keep moving even if its parts fail | |
| Anaesthesia drug may make it easier to forget upsetting memories | |
| Electric cars won't shrink emissions enough - we must cut travel too | |
| Is religion good or bad for humanity? Epic analysis delivers an answer | |
| Deforestation in the Amazon could raise local temperatures by 1.5C | |
| Facebook blocked over a million uploads of Christchurch attack video | |
| Cyclone Idai wreaks havoc in Mozambique and Zimbabwe | |
| Quantum theory might be flawed. That's a cause for celebration | |
| Evidence of early Australian arrival is best judged with an open mind | |
| From the archives: Pop a pill to change your personality | |
| The compelling tale of how climate change denial came to grip the US | |
| Don't miss: Shark crime, optical games and dairy in the cross hairs | |
| How surveillance capitalism is changing human nature forever | |
| Spiky space antenna will probe the frigid exteriors of Jupiter's moons | |
| We have to find a way to stop drones disrupting airports | |
| Feedback: Itâs been a long haul, but âtastyâ airline food is now here | |
| Strange rise of mukbang parents who feed their kids fast food for cash | |
| Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life | |
| I got caught in the middle of a bitter row over humans' violent past | |
| Most powerful thunderstorm ever measured produced 1.3 billion volts | |
| One in four scientists have experienced harassment or discrimination | |
| Why I believe humans were in Australia much earlier than we thought | |
| Genetic risk scores could help the NHS but they aren't ready yet | |
| Schrödingerâs kittens: New thought experiment breaks quantum theory | |
| Google announces video game streaming service to let you play anywhere | |
| Asteroid Bennu is spewing out dust and rocks to create its own moons | |
| Asteroid Ryugu is so dry we may have to rethink how Earth got water | |
| Protected hen harriers are vanishing under suspicious circumstances | |
| Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away | |
| Spread of cancers halted by smart bacteria that trigger immune attack | |
| James Bond is making the switch to an electric car, so when will you? | |
| Karen Uhlenbeck is first woman to win prestigious maths Abel prize | |
| Toilet on International Space Station gets a bacteria-killing upgrade | |
| Distant space rock Ultima Thule formed in a slow and gentle collision | |
| Boys and girls may have differing attitudes to risk thanks to society | |
| Women with a twin brother are more likely to drop out of school | |
| Our brains might sense Earth's magnetic field just like birds do | |
| How to make your brain adaptive enough to cope with anything | |
| Dead whale found with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach | |
| A third of fish sold is mislabelled â hereâs how to avoid being duped | |
| Revealed: First image of huge meteor explosion over Earth last year | |
| Thousands of unknown underwater mountains found in Earthâs oceans | |
| The key to combating extremism is to address its social roots | |
| Huge meteor explosion over Earth last year went unnoticed until now | |
| World's most endangered marine mammal is now down to 10 animals | |
| Students join massive global strike against climate change | |
| Climate change will make it harder to predict heavy rain and floods | |
| Humans couldn't pronounce 'f' and 'v' sounds before farming developed | |
| Climate striker Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel peace prize | |
| Sea otter archaeology could tell us about their 2-million-year history | |
| Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy | |
| Pi Day quiz: How well do you know the mathematical constant? | |
| Mathematician cracks centuries-old problem about the number 33 | |
| Einstein quiz: Can you guess which quotes are really his? | |
| Scientists chasing waterfalls discovered something they aren't used to | |
| IBM made a quantum algorithm that could make AI more powerful | |
| Drug-releasing coil in stomach could provide better treatment for TB | |
| AI-powered smartphone cameras are changing the way we see reality | |
| Venezuela has suffered power blackouts for days | |
| To avert environmental disaster, we need to return to the trees | |
| UK science salaries top £40k for the first time | |
| Flower hat jelly has colour-tipped tentacles for paralysing small fish | |
| Feedback: Flat Earthers accidentally prove themselves wrong | |
| Quick crossword #28 | |
| The mighty | |
| Don't miss: A chance for gamers to plot their own robot revolution | |
| The quantum world is infamously weird â now we might know why | |
| Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood | |
| Italy bans unvaccinated children from schools after measles outbreaks | |
| It will be 'snowing' nitrogen on Pluto for the next century | |
| The best image-recognition AIs are fooled by slightly rotated images | |
| World-class Go-playing AI has learned to do really hard colouring-in | |
| Russian military is building a flying vehicle with rotating paddles | |
| Handheld device could detect CRISPR bioweapons before they spread | |
| Too much sunscreen? Why avoiding the sun could damage your health | |
| Greta Thunberg: Why I began the climate protests that are going global | |
| Home DNA-testing firm will let users block FBI access to their data | |
| Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role | |
| Human activity impacts a quarter of the worldâs threatened species | |
| Black holes and lasers could let us cheat at interstellar travel | |
| Secretive new frog species from ancient lineage discovered in India | |
| Does air pollution really kill nearly 9 million people each year? | |
| We should cautiously welcome use of a form of ketamine for depression | |
| Children can find inappropriate videos on YouTube in just 10 clicks | |
| Stephen Hawkingâs legacy will be honoured with a new 50p coin | |
| China's great firewall and the war to control the internet | |
| Forests are becoming less able to bounce back from wildfires | |
| Ethnic minorities produce less pollution but are exposed to more | |
| Breathing in before doing something may actually make you better at it | |
| Jupiter could be cracking its moon Europa with powerful magnetic force | |
| Brain zap prison experiment suspended by Spanish government | |
| UK and other EU countries ban Boeing 737 Max after Ethiopia crash | |
| Nobel-winner Paul Nurse on Brexit: âThe UK is turning in on itselfâ | |
| Arsenic-munching caterpillars may ingest poison to prevent being eaten | |
| Hawkward! âExpertâ birdwatchers misidentify common birds as rarities | |
| Japan inches towards building a successor to Large Hadron Collider | |
| Norway is starting the world's biggest divestment in oil and gas | |
| Mae Jemison: The astronaut plotting a journey to other stars | |
| Unique chimpanzee cultures are disappearing thanks to humans | |
| A pill that mimics natural antibodies could fight many kinds of flu | |
| Quiz: Do you know these great women of science? | |
| Rain may be causing a worrying amount of ice to melt in Greenland | |
| Rabbit bones suggest Neanderthals were better hunters than we thought | |
| Your 5G guide: Will we all benefit from super-quick mobile internet? | |
| Amazing Arctic images show how ice melt is creating the new north | |
| Feedback: Shy daters get robot chaperones to woo for them | |
| From the archives: 30 years ago, a nascent 'Internet' was under attack | |
| The new Afghanistan war: Saving snow leopards and other wild treasures | |
| Donât miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled | |
| How celebrities have fuelled the amazing rise in pseudoscience | |
| Meet the super-smeller who can diagnose Parkinson's at a sniff | |
| What Londonâs police can learn from Glasgowâs approach to knife crime | |
| Wind and solar will still work in a climate-change ravaged Europe | |
| How belief in punitive gods may have helped large societies cooperate | |
| At last, US dream of resuming human space launches are within reach | |
| MMR vaccine does not cause autism, study once again confirms | |
| Audi, Volvo and Aston Martin are all expected to reveal electric cars | |
| Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe | |
| Exclusive: Brain zap therapy for aggression to be tested on prisoners | |
| China plans world's first deep sea base, complete with robot subs | |
| Ant larvae defend their homes by eating eggs laid by intruders | |
| 'Digital sobriety' can halt tech-fuelled global warming, says report | |
| A third person may have become HIV-free after a bone marrow transplant | |
| A temporary low-calorie diet may reduce inflammatory bowel disease | |
| Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved | |
| Landmark HIV case may be the second person ever to be âcuredâ | |
| Hacking just 1 in 10 cars could gridlock all of the roads in Manhattan | |
| Bill Gatesâs pancake problem â and three more pancakes in science | |
| A gel made from urea has molecules that resemble friendship bracelets | |
| Wikipediaâs civil wars show how we can heal ideological divides online | |
| EU sued for making global warming worse by subsidising wood burning | |
| World's fastest shark gets a burst of speed from shape-shifting skin | |
| Compensating for climate misdeeds can make you a worse carbon emitter | |
| Breast milk contains fungi which may help seed a baby's microbiome | |
| SpaceX ready to take humans to the ISS after a successful dummy run | |
| Climate change is the new normal but we donât seem to notice | |
| Asteroids hitting Mars could have made hot rain fall for decades | |
| The US has started burning recycling but it should only be temporary | |
| SpaceX is about to launch a dummy astronaut called Ripley to the ISS | |
| Broken bones in mice healed faster by heat-releasing implant | |
| Human genome editing is here â now we have to decide who is in charge | |
| Mice given ânight visionâ by injecting nanoparticles into their eyes | |
| Weekend lie-in can't undo the health damage caused by lack of sleep | |
| Purple or brown? This 3D-printed cup changes colour in different light | |
| Self-charging socks could track your exercise and power wearable tech | |
| Watching lots of TV may worsen memory in older people | |
| Earthquake-resistant paint could help brick buildings survive tremors | |
| How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains | |
| Second-ever pair of semi-identical twins identified in Australia | |
| Malaria drugs for mosquitoes could help prevent the disease in humans | |
| Engineered yeast can brew up the active ingredients in cannabis plants | |
| Your genetic data can be exploited without you ever knowing about it | |
| Space exploration needs minnows as much as superpowers | |
| The story of the most beautiful table in science is worth celebrating | |
| Croc dad goes for a swim with 150 floating babies | |
| Feedback: French fencers feel the force and embrace lightsabers | |
| Periodic table special: The elements crossword | |
| Russian Doll: To escape the multiverse, think like Einstein | |
| Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game | |
| Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science | |
| An AI has created music based on Bach â but will an audience notice? | |
| I'm travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind | |
| Here's my favourite element â what's yours? | |
| Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered | |
| Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe | |
| Light pollution has reached fragile habitats and may threaten wildlife | |
| Firefighters tackle moorland blazes fuelled by UK's warm weather | |
| Parkinsonâs drug pumped directly into brain fails to pass key tests | |
| Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia | |
| Why is the UK so hot and can we enjoy the winter sunshine guilt-free? | |
| Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth | |
| Elements quiz: How well do you know the periodic table? | |
| Three reasons why the periodic table needs a redesign | |
| The true story of the birth of the periodic table, 150 years ago | |
| Millions of fish have been dying in Australiaâs major rivers | |
| Don't panic about The Uninhabitable Earth, a new book predicting chaos | |
| Earth could warm by 14°C as growing emissions destroy crucial clouds | |
| The village where more elements were discovered than anywhere else | |
| Picture-editing AI lets you easily alter a celebrityâs face | |
| Underwater push-ups help hibernating turtles stay alive | |
| Wolves are spreading in Germany by moving into military land | |
| Virgin Galactic reaches space again - this time with a passenger | |
| Quantum experiment suggests there really are âalternative factsâ | |
| Four stars full of burnt nuclear ash are speeding through the galaxy | |
| How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with 'just-so' stories | |
| Liberals who want a Green New Deal must include nuclear power | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 bags its first sample from the asteroid Ryugu | |
| AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you | |
| Dinosaur extinction lines up closely with timing of volcanic eruptions | |
| Why Samsungâs folding smartphone might prove more than just a fad | |
| Worldâs biggest bee rediscovered after decades on âmost wantedâ list | |
| Google says it can't fix a security flaw affecting all computer chips | |
| First private mission to the moon is launched on SpaceX rocket | |
| Ban gas boilers for new UK homes by 2025, says climate report | |
| Squid teeth could help make bioplastics and self-repairing clothes | |
| 18 up-and-running projects that could save us from climate change | |
| Neptuneâs smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again | |
| Meat in a dish could be bad for the planet | |
| Gene therapy for common cause of sight loss tested for first time | |
| We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation | |
| Hey Prime Minister, leave them climate protest kids alone | |
| Feedback: Giant glowing squirrels haunt North Carolina backwoods | |
| Cryptic Crossword #3 | |
| The Wandering Earth review: Epic Chinese sci-fi film heralds a new era | |
| Don't miss: Corporate sabotage, Alien restored and our bionic future | |
| YouTube science videos: The channels you should subscribe to | |
| The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe | |
| Footballers really are working harder and getting injured more often | |
| We don't know what a fifth of our genes do â and wonât find out soon | |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era | |
| A 30-minute walk may reduce blood pressure by as much as medication | |
| How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid | |
| Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms | |
| Bees prefer to turn right and it helps them decide where to live | |
| UK is failing to meet almost all of its climate action targets | |
| Nazi sub is being destroyed by bacteria due to Deepwater Horizon spill | |
| Ancient humans thrived in rainforests by hunting monkeys and squirrels | |
| Signal of first known exomoon may actually be from Jupiter-like planet | |
| Grapes in a microwave generate a fiery plasma and now we know why | |
| This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds | |
| PTSD may one day be treated with a common blood pressure drug | |
| Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people | |
| Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms | |
| AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable | |
| Fears of OpenAIâs super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown | |
| A dialect quiz shows we still cling to our regional identities | |
| The children striking over climate change speak to New Scientist | |
| Meet the man who made CRISPR monkey clones to study depression | |
| Russiaâs plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating | |
| Interstellar âOumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe | |
| Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species | |
| A gut bacteria toxin that damages DNA may be involved in bowel cancer | |
| CRISPR could help us protect ourselves from viruses like flu and HIV | |
| Mice given ânight visionâ by injecting nanoparticles into their eyes | |
| Weekend lie-in can't undo the health damage caused by lack of sleep | |
| Purple or brown? This 3D-printed cup changes colour in different light | |
| Self-charging socks could track your exercise and power wearable tech | |
| Watching lots of TV may worsen memory in older people | |
| Earthquake-resistant paint could help brick buildings survive tremors | |
| How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains | |
| Second-ever pair of semi-identical twins identified in Australia | |
| Malaria drugs for mosquitoes could help prevent the disease in humans | |
| Engineered yeast can brew up the active ingredients in cannabis plants | |
| Your genetic data can be exploited without you ever knowing about it | |
| Space exploration needs minnows as much as superpowers | |
| The story of the most beautiful table in science is worth celebrating | |
| Croc dad goes for a swim with 150 floating babies | |
| Feedback: French fencers feel the force and embrace lightsabers | |
| Periodic table special: The elements crossword | |
| Russian Doll: To escape the multiverse, think like Einstein | |
| Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game | |
| Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science | |
| An AI has created music based on Bach â but will an audience notice? | |
| I'm travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind | |
| Here's my favourite element â what's yours? | |
| Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered | |
| Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe | |
| Light pollution has reached fragile habitats and may threaten wildlife | |
| Firefighters tackle moorland blazes fuelled by UK's warm weather | |
| Parkinsonâs drug pumped directly into brain fails to pass key tests | |
| Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia | |
| Why is the UK so hot and can we enjoy the winter sunshine guilt-free? | |
| Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth | |
| Elements quiz: How well do you know the periodic table? | |
| Three reasons why the periodic table needs a redesign | |
| The true story of the birth of the periodic table, 150 years ago | |
| Millions of fish have been dying in Australiaâs major rivers | |
| Don't panic about The Uninhabitable Earth, a new book predicting chaos | |
| Earth could warm by 14°C as growing emissions destroy crucial clouds | |
| The village where more elements were discovered than anywhere else | |
| Picture-editing AI lets you easily alter a celebrityâs face | |
| Underwater push-ups help hibernating turtles stay alive | |
| Wolves are spreading in Germany by moving into military land | |
| Virgin Galactic reaches space again - this time with a passenger | |
| Quantum experiment suggests there really are âalternative factsâ | |
| Four stars full of burnt nuclear ash are speeding through the galaxy | |
| How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with 'just-so' stories | |
| Liberals who want a Green New Deal must include nuclear power | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 bags its first sample from the asteroid Ryugu | |
| AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you | |
| Dinosaur extinction lines up closely with timing of volcanic eruptions | |
| Why Samsungâs folding smartphone might prove more than just a fad | |
| Worldâs biggest bee rediscovered after decades on âmost wantedâ list | |
| Google says it can't fix a security flaw affecting all computer chips | |
| First private mission to the moon is launched on SpaceX rocket | |
| Ban gas boilers for new UK homes by 2025, says climate report | |
| Squid teeth could help make bioplastics and self-repairing clothes | |
| 18 up-and-running projects that could save us from climate change | |
| Neptuneâs smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again | |
| Meat in a dish could be bad for the planet | |
| Gene therapy for common cause of sight loss tested for first time | |
| We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation | |
| Hey Prime Minister, leave them climate protest kids alone | |
| Feedback: Giant glowing squirrels haunt North Carolina backwoods | |
| Cryptic Crossword #3 | |
| The Wandering Earth review: Epic Chinese sci-fi film heralds a new era | |
| Don't miss: Corporate sabotage, Alien restored and our bionic future | |
| YouTube science videos: The channels you should subscribe to | |
| The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe | |
| Footballers really are working harder and getting injured more often | |
| We don't know what a fifth of our genes do â and wonât find out soon | |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era | |
| A 30-minute walk may reduce blood pressure by as much as medication | |
| How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid | |
| Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms | |
| Bees prefer to turn right and it helps them decide where to live | |
| UK is failing to meet almost all of its climate action targets | |
| Nazi sub is being destroyed by bacteria due to Deepwater Horizon spill | |
| Ancient humans thrived in rainforests by hunting monkeys and squirrels | |
| Signal of first known exomoon may actually be from Jupiter-like planet | |
| Grapes in a microwave generate a fiery plasma and now we know why | |
| This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds | |
| PTSD may one day be treated with a common blood pressure drug | |
| Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people | |
| Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms | |
| AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable | |
| Fears of OpenAIâs super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown | |
| A dialect quiz shows we still cling to our regional identities | |
| The children striking over climate change speak to New Scientist | |
| Meet the man who made CRISPR monkey clones to study depression | |
| Russiaâs plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating | |
| Interstellar âOumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe | |
| Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species | |
| A gut bacteria toxin that damages DNA may be involved in bowel cancer | |
| CRISPR could help us protect ourselves from viruses like flu and HIV | |
| NASA's photo archives reveal 60 years of space travel | |
| Can teenagers get vaccinated without their parentsâ permission? | |
| Find tonic water bitter? Part of your brain may be on the small side | |
| Offspring from older sperm are fitter and age more slowly | |
| Robot mimics desert ants to find its way home without GPS | |
| Annual screening for high-risk women in their 30s finds breast cancers | |
| European Mars rover named after DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin | |
| The decline of insects is natureâs alarm bell ringing very loudly | |
| Cheese needs more scrutiny for its welfare and environmental impacts | |
| Feedback: Get the love bug with zoo's cockroach-naming scheme | |
| No plugs needed: How wireless charging could set electric cars free | |
| From the archives: 1989, the warmest year on record | |
| A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight review: Sublime raid on infinity | |
| Don't miss: A chance to grapple with time travel, the joy of maths | |
| The Wall review â A dystopian adventure for the climate change era | |
| There is No Planet B review: How to save Earth by changing humans | |
| How humans evolved to be both shockingly violent and super-cooperative | |
| Evidence of new physics could have been under our noses all along | |
| Breast pumps may introduce harmful bacteria to babiesâ gut microbiome | |
| Unhappy Valentineâs: Why bad memories of your ex are so hard to shake | |
| Smart skin sticker could detect asthma attacks before they happen | |
| The truth about cheese: The terrible costs of our favourite food | |
| Slime-fighting slug can superglue enemy frogs to trees for days | |
| Wild black leopard photographed in Africa for first time in 100 years | |
| Opportunity Mars rover is officially dead after 15-year mission | |
| Cassowariesâ strange headgear helps them stay cool in the heat | |
| Chimp sign language and human communication follow the same rules | |
| The US plans to launch swarms of attack drones from robo-submarines | |
| AI has helped rescue children trafficked for sexual exploitation | |
| DNA test could boost IVF success rates without putting embryo at risk | |
| Green New Deal proposal includes free higher education and fair pay | |
| Sailors spread the ancient fashion for monuments like Stonehenge | |
| Controversial fossils suggest life began to move 2.1 billion years ago | |
| AI can diagnose childhood illnesses better than some doctors | |
| Distant Ultima Thule is a weirdly flat snowman that defies explanation | |
| Huge global extinction risk for insects could be worse than we thought | |
| Tyrannosaurus rex might have accidentally helped fruit grow | |
| Game theory says Brexit negotiations are now all about avoiding blame | |
| Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, the godfather of caffeine | |
| Universal income study finds money for nothing won't make us work less | |
| Beer before wine or wine before beer: the hangover is the same | |
| Don't believe women in science face huge inequality? Here's the proof | |
| Heat-sensitive fabric cools you on hot days and warms you in the cold | |
| A painless pill containing tiny needles may one day replace injections | |
| Crows can solve a tricky puzzle box by planning ahead and using tools | |
| European Mars rover named after DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin | |
| 5 of the worldâs toughest unsolved maths problems | |
| Voting systems that let losing side win may increase overall happiness | |
| WhatsAppâs message limit isnât enough to halt the spread of fake news | |
| Thereâs a weird new type of magnet that shouldn't be able to exist | |
| Recommended gap between smear tests could increase thanks to HPV test | |
| Bees can pass a simple maths test but they might just be cheating | |
| Coastal catastrophe looms larger as sea level forecasts creep upwards | |
| It now costs more to make bitcoin than the cryptocurrency is worth | |
| The instability of past ecosystems shows we must cut emissions now | |
| The truth about generations: Why millennials aren't special snowflakes | |
| Feedback: Paying through the nose for someone's used tissues | |
| Quick crossword #27 | |
| Orchids at Kew Gardens review â celebrating the colour of Colombia | |
| Donât miss: Exploring your own delusions, playing with evolution | |
| The baffling quantum maths solution it took 10 years to understand | |
| Mother sloth bear carrying babies takes on a big male tiger and wins | |
| How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution | |
| Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home | |
| Trump wants to end HIV infections by 2030 - here's how to do it | |
| DNA-eating bacteria lurk beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor | |
| Australia has been home to hopping kangaroos for 20 million years | |
| Material made from citrus fruit peel could help clean up oil spills | |
| The ancestor of all creatures on Earth lived a lukewarm lifestyle | |
| Scientists studied a âhaunted houseâ to understand why we love horror | |
| Mouse toes partially regrown after amputation thanks to two proteins | |
| US and Russia face nuclear arms race as both threaten key treaty | |
| Women seem to have younger brains than men the same age | |
| Climate change is making it harder to grow fruit and vegetables | |
| Teenagers who copy each otherâs risk-taking have more friends | |
| People with depression are less likely to have certain gut bacteria | |
| Seismic boom may explain why 2018 Palu earthquake was so devastating | |
| Here's how we could turn an asteroid into a space station | |
| Confused about cancer? Here's what we really do know about its causes | |
| Your gut bacteria may match your blood group â but we donât know why | |
| Mind-controlled robot lets you weld metal without using your hands | |
| Rhinoceros beetles have weird mouth gears that help them chew | |
| The Milky Way may be slowly devouring a hidden neighbouring galaxy | |
| Weâve hacked the Curiosity rover to learn how mountains form on Mars | |
| Self-growing material could make muscles that become stronger with use | |
| Deep-sea mining could wreck the last unexplored ecosystem on Earth | |
| Scuba-diving gear could help clean up carbon dioxide from power plants | |
| Virus lurking inside banana genome has been destroyed with CRISPR | |
| Self-taught robot figures out what it looks like and what it can do | |
| The rare disease challenge meeting | |
| Vaping beats nicotine gum at helping people quit smoking | |
| Black holes eat negative energy and vomit out huge powerful jets | |
| Gum disease and Alzheimer's: Your questions answered | |
| So long, veganuary: Hereâs how to consume consciously year round | |
| People are seeking sperm donors online, but are the risks worth it? | |
| Siberian cave reveals secrets of its mysterious Denisovan inhabitants | |
| Asking the biggest questions is the very essence of science | |
| Alzheimer's bacterial link reiterates the importance of our microbiome | |
| Feedback: Planting a flag in great Pacific plastic patch | |
| Monarch butterflies' beautiful wing scales enable their epic migration | |
| Some snails wear jackets made of algae to protect them from the sun | |
| From the archives: Does dowsing really help you find water? | |
| Chasing the Sun review: Light's power over life charted | |
| Don't miss: Space thrills, wooden guts and the rise of esports | |
| Time Tries All Things review â Take time out to enjoy a dreamlike show | |
| This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic | |
| The truth behind Boston Dynamics' viral robot videos | |
| So far 2019 has set 35 records for heat and 2 for cold | |
| Loot boxes in games like Fortnite are gambling and should be regulated | |
| Genome sequencing could become a routine part of health care in the UK | |
| Lifeâs secret ingredient: A radical theory of what makes things alive | |
| Epigenetic testing firms claim to help you live a healthier lifestyle | |
| Using CRISPR to stop male calves being born may lower animal suffering | |
| Neanderthals may have been sprinters not endurance runners | |
| National parks pick up the pieces after month-long US shutdown | |
| Mind-reading implant can decode what your ears are hearing | |
| We've only just found out exactly how sperm wiggle their tails to swim | |
| Will rising food costs after Brexit really cause thousands of deaths? | |
| Can scanning books really reveal if the US is becoming more tolerant? | |
| Blood test can diagnose fetal genetic disorders early in pregnancy | |
| The emptiness of space has a structure we could use to send messages | |
| Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon | |
| Battling AI algorithm tested on a quantum computer for first time | |
| Women could use their own uteruses as incubators for IVF embryos | |
| Terrible drivers could teach autonomous cars how to avoid crashes | |
| Carbon dioxide levels will soar past the 410 ppm milestone in 2019 | |
| DeepMind AI thrashes human professionals at video game StarCraft II | |
| Staying slim isn't just about what you eat - it's about your DNA too | |
| People appear to sleep much better when rocked throughout the night | |
| Should we rename some cancers to make them sound less scary? | |
| Gum disease may be the cause of Alzheimer's - here's how to avoid it | |
| Some snails wear jackets made of algae to protect them from the sun | |
| The moonâs violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life | |
| We may finally know what causes Alzheimerâs â and how to stop it | |
| Married people have stronger hands than those who are single | |
| Tumour-killing virus could stop a childhood eye cancer and save vision | |
| Powerful whole-species gene editing tool fails first tests in mice | |
| Mathematician's record-beating formula can generate 50 prime numbers | |
| Algorithm that can see around corners could help autonomous cars | |
| A meteorite hit the moon during a total lunar eclipse | |
| Is the idea of species now more trouble than it is worth? | |
| In a world of baffling complexity, a scientific mindset offers help | |
| Feedback: Why Mona Lisa's famous gaze has wandering eyes | |
| Cryptic crossword #2 | |
| To feed 11 billion people, we must share crop seeds as a common good | |
| All you want to know about fatbergs but are too disgusted to ask | |
| Don't miss: Immersive memories, DIY starships and the secret of life | |
| Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is | |
| 8 ways to keep your brain young and stave off mental decline | |
| Prototyping in Tokyo review â Imagining a future full of lifelike tech | |
| Megawave recreated in the lab looks just like Hokusai's Great Wave | |
| What's inside nothing? This laser will rip it up to find out | |
| Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found | |
| Chinese army AI can track people across different CCTV cameras | |
| Africans may have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar 4000 years ago | |
| Common vaccine may protect children from developing type 1 diabetes | |
| Researcher who created gene-edited babies has been fired | |
| A meteorite hit the moon during Monday's total lunar eclipse | |
| Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory | |
| France and others plan to tackle air pollution in Mediterranean sea | |
| Our galaxyâs supermassive black hole may be spewing matter right at us | |
| Weâve discovered a new type of blood vessel in our bones | |
| The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought | |
| Creation of gene-edited babies in China may have been illegal | |
| Probability helps zebrafish stay in schools when faced with predators | |
| Astronauts could use fish and human waste to grow food on long trips | |
| Every bottle of prosecco may erode 4.4 kilograms of Italian hillside | |
| We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake | |
| 10 year challenge: How science and the world have changed | |
| Australia swelters in record temperatures with warmest ever night | |
| Peacocks might use their showy tails for covert communication | |
| Behind the Sheet review: Eye-opening play follows slavesâ story | |
| Silencing brain cells in mice can make them no longer care about pain | |
| Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth | |
| Saturnâs rings formed in a smash-up less than 100 million years ago | |
| Could a diet save the planet? Only if we pay the real cost of food | |
| AI chemist figures out how to legally clone expensive patented drugs | |
| Global leaders warn of ecological collapse and technological meltdown | |
| We've seen methane rain gleaming on the icy plains of Titan | |
| Why CERN's plans for a â¬20 billion supersized collider are a bad idea | |
| Rational thinking is saving antibiotics â it could work on Brexit too | |
| Songwriter AI emulates the Beatles with a little help from its friends | |
| Mathematicianâs record-beating formula can generate 50 prime numbers | |
| Engineered bacteria could mop up toxic ammonia in the human gut | |
| Robot dog taught itself to get back up when people kick it over | |
| Manatees, whales and turtles are coming back from the brink in the US | |
| Growth of desalination plants is a serious problem for marine life | |
| Type 2 diabetes may not be a lifelong condition | |
| Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk | |
| Crows can guess the weight of an object by watching it sway in wind | |
| Feedback: Havana spies bugged by shrieking Cuban crickets | |
| From the archives: this is your brain on ecstasy, 30 years ago | |
| Don't miss: Star-studded art, weird tides and smart cities | |
| The Dream review â a podcast tale of how firms manipulate our brains | |
| 'We'll die before we find the answer': Crisis at the heart of physics | |
| Earth in 2050: This is what a world warmed by 1.5°C looks like | |
| Why doing more exercise won't help you burn more calories | |
| Long-eared jerboas have some of the most outsized ears on the planet | |
| Huge spinning ice disc in river provides a carousel for ducks | |
| The war against antibiotic resistance is finally turning in our favour | |
| New Scientist launches internship scheme for aspiring BAME journalists | |
| Cuttlefish embryos can see and recognise predators before they hatch | |
| Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage | |
| Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people | |
| China's moon garden is dead as the craft is plunged into lunar night | |
| Long penises help hermit crabs avoid being robbed during sex | |
| How hagfish can make enough slime to clog a shark's jaws in seconds | |
| We all love Marie Kondo. So why is tidying up so hard? | |
| Call for more transparency over âadd-onâ fertility treatments | |
| Astronauts travelling to the moon and Mars risk dying from superbugs | |
| First moon plants sprout in China's Chang'e 4 biosphere experiment | |
| No-deal Brexit could lead to drug shortages and delayed operations | |
| Brain-reading headsets trialled on 10,000 schoolchildren in China | |
| Rich people's gardens are better for bees and other pollinators | |
| Wellness gurus' health tips: which to adopt and which to ignore | |
| All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work | |
| Weird star system has double binary stars and wonky planetary nursery | |
| A child's mix of gut bacteria may determine if they get allergies | |
| Dolphins unintentionally poisoning offspring with banned chemicals | |
| A black hole the size of Jupiter is just wandering around the galaxy | |
| Bacteria live in Chinaâs thick smogs and may be making it even worse | |
| Ovarian cancer AI can tell how aggressive a womanâs tumour is | |
| What are the risks of dying from having the yellow fever vaccine? | |
| Why hip surgery wouldnât help extend Andy Murrayâs tennis career | |
| Hackers are stealing computer power to make millions in cryptocurrency | |
| Elon Musk reveals Starship test rocket that looks like 1950s sci-fi | |
| Facebook tasks fact checkers with tackling misinformation in the UK | |
| Video shows the moment China's Chang'e 4 landed on moon's far side | |
| Fine-to-flush label will tell you which wet wipes won't cause fatbergs | |
| Taking ginger pills can make disgusting ideas more palatable | |
| Wasp eggs laid on paralysed insects emit gas that keeps victims fresh | |
| A ghostly trick produces X-ray images with a lower dose of radiation | |
| AI created images of food just by reading the recipes | |
| Bumblebees lose sleep looking after the young by napping half as much | |
| Hubble Telescope camera breaks â and US shutdown might delay repair | |
| Medieval dental plaque suggests women played important role as scribes | |
| Did older Facebook users sharing fake news really help elect Trump? | |
| Millions of years ago a massive whale-eating whale roamed the seas | |
| Astronomers have seen dying stars slowly crystallise and turn solid | |
| Radio wave bursts from space keep hitting Earth and we don't know why | |
| We must give more thought to how algorithms affect us | |
| Here's how we can make work work for all of us | |
| Feedback: Chinese rocket carries powdered tiger to new heights | |
| Crossword #26 | |
| Mohammed VI Museum of Water Civilization review â lessons from Morocco | |
| Don't miss: 500 years of women in medicine and the future of design | |
| Taking an elevator into space could actually happen. Here's how | |
| In the beginning: The full story of life on Earth can finally be told | |
| Artificial sun made with movie magic could create clean hydrogen | |
| China is showing the rest of the world how to build a cashless society | |
| Drones are causing airport chaos - why can't we stop them? | |
| Crows can guess the weight of an object by watching it sway in wind | |
| Exclusive: Cuba failed to report thousands of Zika virus cases in 2017 | |
| A UK police force is dropping tricky cases on advice of an algorithm | |
| Winning at work: How to avoid getting sick in the office | |
| Winning at work: How to manage your boss⦠and get that pay rise | |
| Winning at work: Is flexible working actually a good idea? | |
| Winning at work: How to take the perfect stress-busting break | |
| Winning at work: How to stay focused and avoid distractions | |
| Winning at work: Why hot-desking and open-plan offices are bad for you | |
| Winning at work: Why chilling out is the route to job success | |
| Winning at work: How to create the perfect desk space | |
| Winning at work: How to plan your day (and avoid the afternoon slump) | |
| Flowers hear bees and make sweeter nectar when theyâre buzzing nearby | |
| IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer | |
| Core set of genes explain why some animals stick to one mate at a time | |
| A hormone released during exercise might protect against Alzheimer's | |
| Ditching Facebook could reduce stress but also make you less happy | |
| Top geneticist calls for global rules for ethical human genome editing | |
| AI can identify rare genetic disorders by the shape of someoneâs face | |
| We could drill water wells in Martian ice to survive on the Red Planet | |
| NHS 10-year-plan aims to expand digital healthcare and genetic testing | |
| Burden of Genius review: The story of the first liver transplants | |
| Self-cleaning spacesuits could help astronauts cope with Martian dust | |
| Hackers have leaked personal details of hundreds of German politicians | |
| Why the UK using less electricity is weirdly bad news for the climate | |
| Japanâs plan to resume commercial whaling could actually help whales | |
| An AI conference warns us why we need to mind our language | |
| Rabbits that don't eat their own faeces are small and weak | |
| Donât panic about childrenâs screen time, try these tips instead | |
| Australians care if politicians tell lies, but people in the US don't | |
| A cosmic collision may be coming for our galaxy sooner than we thought | |
| Fixing a flaw in photosynthesis could massively boost food production | |
| First photo of Chinese Yutu-2 rover exploring far side of the moon | |
| Genome sequencing reveals disease risk in otherwise healthy babies | |
| Bereaved people unconsciously suppress thoughts of lost loved ones | |
| Broken Symmetries review: the art of seeing science afresh | |
| Watch: Very Large Telescope uses giant lasers in hunt for black holes | |
| Fetal sharks may look for food by swimming around inside their mothers | |
| Chinaâs Changâe 4 makes historic first landing on the moon's far side | |
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| Intelâs quest to build the worldâs first true quantum computer | |
| Biggest archaeological dig in Europe will uncover UK's buried history | |
| Baby chicks could be given faecal transplants to ward off infections | |
| Young peopleâs blood is being tested as a treatment for Parkinsonâs | |
| Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks | |
| A skin test after a traumatic event may identify those at risk of PTSD | |
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| Lost 'Darwinia' islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos | |
| Ski exoskeleton boosts leg power and reduces tiredness on the slopes | |
| Cannibalistic African clawed frog eats tadpoles of its relatives | |
| Crayfish experience something like anxiety when they shed their armour | |
| NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object weâve ever visited | |
| Hominin v monkey deathmatch ended in a draw when they fell down a hole | |
| Gel made from birch bark reduces skin scarring from cuts and burns | |
| Women are finally getting equal access to the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| Scuba-diving lizard can stay underwater for at least 16 minutes | |
| The Transformers Summit: solving the problem of urban living | |
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| Starchy food may reduce autoimmune reactions in people with lupus | |
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| Device that works like a lung makes clean fuel from water | |
| There may be a link between erectile dysfunction and type 2 diabetes | |
| Vaguer goals may help you stick to your new exercise routine | |
| Is eating cheese as bad for animals and the planet as eating meat? | |
| The Moon exhibition in Denmark re-enchants the satellite for our times | |
| How the right Christmas lunch can help save Earth from climate change | |
| Dream on: My year pursuing the third state of being | |
| Nature's Nation: Art benefits from getting its hands dirty | |
| Ice-filled Martian crater is a permanent winter wonderland | |
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| The more pets you meet as a baby, the lower your risk of allergies | |
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| DNA from 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals how an ancient woman lived | |
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| Colour me scientific: Two free fun colour-me-in downloads | |
| Exercise may lower high blood pressure as much as medication | |
| The very first dinosaurs probably evolved in South America | |
| A swarming asexual midge is island hopping towards Antarctica | |
| How the stunning Earthrise became the worldâs most famous photograph | |
| Who do we trust when human and machine intelligence disagree | |
| Snake-oil sellers must no longer be able to hide behind charity status | |
| Despite all the grim news, the world is becoming a better place for us | |
| Feedback: Why smoke in the kitchen could leave your goose cooked | |
| Festive crossword | |
| Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2018âs science stories | |
| Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history | |
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| The mysterious demise of Europe's massive cave bears | |
| Death rays: How the dream of an ultimate weapon became a dark farce | |
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| The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018 | |
| 2019 Preview: Experimental vaccine could let coeliacs eat gluten | |
| 2019 Preview: Gravitational waves will be discovered every few weeks | |
| 2019 Preview: We will see the first ever picture of a black hole | |
| 2019 Preview: AI to best humans at one of world's most complex games | |
| 2019 Preview: Teeth will reveal our speciesâ deep evolutionary past | |
| 2019 Preview: Electric cars of all shapes and sizes will hit the road | |
| 2019 Preview: People will receive transfusions of artificial blood | |
| 2019 Preview: DNA testing will lead to a decline in genetic disorders | |
| 2019 Preview: 30 cold cases to be solved using DNA ancestry websites | |
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| Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science | |
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| Six spectacular ice phenomena to look out for this winter | |
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| How busting some moves on the dance floor is good for your brain | |
| Stem cells implanted into the brain stop epilepsy seizures in rats | |
| A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant weâve ever seen | |
| Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America | |
| Stunning fossils show pterosaurs had primitive feathers like dinosaurs | |
| The secret site in England where beavers control the landscape | |
| Coal power emissions in the US are even higher than we thought | |
| Breathing in moon dust could release toxins in astronauts' lungs | |
| Incredible shrinking 3D printer can make really tiny objects | |
| Can a Green New Deal boost the US economy and save the planet? | |
| Virgin Galactic claims its first successful flight to edge of space | |
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| Some people have slightly squashed heads thanks to Neanderthal DNA | |
| We've been using CRISPR for years - now we know how it really works | |
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| Feedback: The President of Nigeria is (almost certainly) not a clone | |
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| Vibrating crystal made of 10 billion atoms smashes quantum record | |
| Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight | |
| First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world | |
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| The Great Barrier Reef is fighting back by losing weak species | |
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| Brain scans reveal why your brain forgets details | |
| Interstellar asteroid âOumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen | |
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| Why Australiaâs new encryption laws may actually help criminals | |
| DeepMindâs Go playing software can now beat you at two more games | |
| Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human | |
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| Tiny sun sensor warns you when your skin is about to burn | |
| Bacteria could protect old paintings from pigment-eating microbes | |
| Fossil blubber shows ichthyosaurs were warm blooded reptiles | |
| Global carbon emissions rose 3 per cent this year (which is bad) | |
| Genetic disorders should be the focus of CRISPR gene editing trials | |
| Let's cheer workers at Google who are holding their bosses to account | |
| Baboons live for months after getting genetically modified pig hearts | |
| There won't be many more gene-edited babies just yet - here's why | |
| Why was HIV chosen as the first target for embryo gene editing? | |
| The gene editing revelation that shocked the world | |
| Gene editing is so easy to do that we couldnât stop it if we wanted to | |
| World leaders now have a rare opportunity to actually save the world | |
| How to transform Earth's cities | |
| A sea change for shipping efficiency | |
| We donât need stars to navigate space - black holes work way better | |
| Feedback: How can we make the men in green more, er, green? | |
| Crossword #25 | |
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| 3000-year-old woman's mummy found in tomb from the time of Tutankhamun | |
| Gene-editing experiment widely criticised for safety and ethics issues | |
| Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science | |
| UK DNA project hits major milestone with 100,000 genomes sequenced | |
| Tonnes of food are thrown away daily â could meal kits be the answer? | |
| First baby born thanks to womb transplant from deceased donor | |
| New medical implants need a higher approval bar than toothbrushes | |
| Phone app can diagnose anaemia from photos of fingernails | |
| Seven steps to save the planet: How to take on climate change and win | |
| Your whole office could be a computer thanks to sculpted Wi-Fi waves | |
| LIGO found four more pairs of black holes, including the biggest yet | |
| We have all we need to beat the HIV epidemic â except political will | |
| Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun's north pole | |
| Astronauts launch in Soyuz rocket for first time since botched takeoff | |
| Is visiting a robot brothel ok? Most people say yes, if you are single | |
| NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu | |
| Almost everything we know about social media and health could be wrong | |
| Space art could be so much more than a shiny satellite in the sky | |
| Millions of passport and credit card details exposed in Marriott hack | |
| Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers | |
| Green car tyres can generate energy while monitoring road conditions | |
| Epic history of light reveals the universe peaked 10 billion years ago | |
| Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau | |
| Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa | |
| Some spiders produce milk â and itâs more nutritious than cowâs milk | |
| Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean | |
| âScientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-editedâ | |
| Gene therapy eases Parkinsonâs symptoms by rewiring parts of the brain | |
| CRISPR babies: more details on the experiment that shocked the world | |
| Miniature placentas grown in lab give positive pregnancy test result | |
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| Particles crossing to our world could open portal to dark-matter realm | |
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| Making AI research classified will harm US science | |
| Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season | |
| Feedback: Spirit guides have spoken, and they say more juice | |
| 14 great science and tech books to give as presents this Christmas | |
| Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains | |
| Darkfield's Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead | |
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| The truth about supplements: do they work and should you take them? | |
| EU set to resist air industry attempts to limit climate change action | |
| CRISPR scientist says another woman is pregnant with an edited embryo | |
| Seagrass loss off the coast of Kenya is fuelling climate change | |
| Some honeybees have four parents or no mother â and we donât know why | |
| The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature | |
| The best pollution masks for cyclists block half of bad particles | |
| Rats can make friends with robot rats and will rescue them when stuck | |
| Spacecraft to study marsquakes lands on Mars after 7 minutes of terror | |
| Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children | |
| Misuse of pregabalin painkiller has risen 900 per cent in Australia | |
| Worldâs first gene-edited babies announced by a scientist in China | |
| Exclusive: UK police wants AI to stop violent crime before it happens | |
| Breakdown of brain's autopilot mode may explain Parkinson's disease | |
| Bacterial World review â celebrating how bacteria made life on Earth | |
| Graphene generators could let you recharge a phone with your breath | |
| Smart mini-backpacks for chickens can monitor their welfare on farms | |
| MS symptoms improved by treatment that attacks glandular fever virus | |
| Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading | |
| Ancient hippo-like reptile was a giant to rival the dinosaurs | |
| Shallow Mexican seabed traps tsunamis so they strike land repeatedly | |
| Climate crisis as greenhouse gas levels reach record highs | |
| Giant grooves on Marsâs moon Phobos may be caused by rolling boulders | |
| We urgently need to switch to hybrid heating for homes, says UK report | |
| Hydrogen will never be a full solution to our green energy problems | |
| Diabetes can be diagnosed by simply shining a light on your skin | |
| Are disposable nappies really so terrible for the environment? | |
| Electric zero-emissions plane raises hopes for eco-friendly air travel | |
| California's dry summer set the stage for the Camp Fire | |
| Thousands evacuated as Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts again | |
| To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers | |
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| Cryptic Crossword #1 | |
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| 37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body | |
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| Star smash-up is yet more evidence Einstein got it right about gravity | |
| Car assembly is heavy work â this exoskeleton can boost your strength | |
| NASA has chosen the landing site for its life-hunting 2020 Mars rover | |
| Silencing a gene may prevent deadly pre-eclampsia in pregnancy | |
| Complex stone tools in China may re-write our species' ancient history | |
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| A computer game's edible controller lets you play it with your gut | |
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| Catching up on sleep at weekends may aggravate period pain | |
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| Environmentalists must embrace nuclear power to stem climate change | |
| A new DNA sequencing service wants to reward you for sharing your data | |
| Prefer tea or coffee? It may be down to your genes for bitter tastes | |
| Life may have begun with cells made wholly from simple proteins | |
| New techniques may soon make designer babies a reality â are we ready? | |
| Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins | |
| Exclusive: A new test can predict IVF embryos' risk of having a low IQ | |
| Huge 30-kilometre wide meteorite crater found under Greenland glacier | |
| Googleâs takeover of health app appears to renege on DeepMind promises | |
| Urbanisation made flooding from Hurricane Harvey 21 times as likely | |
| Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star | |
| An AI apocalypse isn't the problem â technology-driven inequality is | |
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| Mixed results for science in the US midterm elections | |
| Inside the hunt for the universe's missing ingredient â dark matter | |
| The race to green domestic heating and prevent climate catastrophe | |
| Feedback: Is 'Oumuamua an alien solar sail or interstellar mozzarella? | |
| How to solve the great global protein shortage that never was? | |
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| China may have developed a quantum radar that can spot stealth planes | |
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| An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean | |
| Earliest known animal might have inflated its body like a balloon | |
| Plutoâs weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth | |
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| Why lichen may be the perfect factories for making rocket fuel on Mars | |
| Dynasties review: Attenboroughâs latest special focuses on real drama | |
| They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life | |
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| Iran's imprisoned conservationists need scientists to speak up | |
| Two new rogue planets that do not orbit stars have been discovered | |
| Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australia share some ancestry | |
| The cause of half of all developmental disorders is a genetic mystery | |
| NASA is giving advice to Yuri Milner's private mission to Enceladus | |
| Double the risk of death! The problem with headline health statistics | |
| Ancient tribes of Scotland learned to write after contact with Romans | |
| Blood test can spot DNA from eight different types of cancer | |
| World's first figurative art is of an unknown animal in Borneo | |
| Brazilâs next president threatens the people and forests of the Amazon | |
| How worrying is it that more and more teens are using e-cigarettes? | |
| Fines for misuse of data in the UK ahead of EU referendum | |
| If Finland struggles to recycle, what hope the rest of the world? | |
| Come and join as a trainee subeditor | |
| Swelling the number of women in physics will require a broad alliance | |
| Feedback: Beware water that's watered down, says nutritionist | |
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| review â Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play | |
| Unsavory Truth review â exposing the food industry's abuse of science | |
| The day a Siberian tiger nearly killed me | |
| Thousands of flamingos dine on colourful bacteria in this rainbow lake | |
| Destroying a type of cloud may help stabilise climate change | |
| Finland's long, hard road to creating a circular economy | |
| The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on | |
| Women in physics: Why there's a problem and how we can solve it | |
| The first detailed look at how Elon Musk's space internet could work | |
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| More than 60 prescription drugs are getting into river foodchains | |
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| Gene therapy injection into spinal cord halts ALS in adult mice | |
| Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UKâs new £50 note | |
| Your gut is full of neurons and they are replaced every 2 weeks | |
| Your old, unwanted clothes can be turned into building materials | |
| LIGO to publish new paper in wake of New Scientist investigation | |
| AI's weirdest creations include beef truffles and diving board hats | |
| Pacific island to ban some sun creams in a bid to save its coral reefs | |
| Lengthy warm spells and heavy rainfall are on the rise in the UK | |
| At London's Barbican Hall, sound and vision ushered in the End Times | |
| US army tool will automatically inject an antidote during a gas attack | |
| Iconic museum of science, art and design is turning itself inside out | |
| Why air travel makes deadly disease pandemics less likely | |
| Rock, paper, scissors with 100 people could last a quadrillion rounds | |
| Health risks increase for babies born to fathers aged 45 or over | |
| A zap from a laser could make bigger quantum computers possible | |
| Almost everything we know about social media and health could be wrong | |
| Space art could be so much more than a shiny satellite in the sky | |
| Millions of passport and credit card details exposed in Marriott hack | |
| Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers | |
| Green car tyres can generate energy while monitoring road conditions | |
| Epic history of light reveals the universe peaked 10 billion years ago | |
| Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau | |
| Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa | |
| Some spiders produce milk â and itâs more nutritious than cowâs milk | |
| Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean | |
| âScientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-editedâ | |
| Gene therapy eases Parkinsonâs symptoms by rewiring parts of the brain | |
| CRISPR babies: more details on the experiment that shocked the world | |
| Miniature placentas grown in lab give positive pregnancy test result | |
| We're hoping for a green Christmas this year | |
| Gene-editing humans has huge potential, but caution is needed | |
| New Scientist 60 years ago: Exploding bombs to fix the climate | |
| Don't miss: delusions, a prototype construction robot and a VR game | |
| review â the buzz of exploring honeybees' secrets | |
| The best fiction and sci-fi of 2018 to wrap or read this Xmas | |
| Particles crossing to our world could open portal to dark-matter realm | |
| Giant baby birds sitting on their potty-like nests make a fine sight | |
| Putting a price on CO2 is a smokescreen that hides its human cost | |
| Making AI research classified will harm US science | |
| Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season | |
| Feedback: Spirit guides have spoken, and they say more juice | |
| 14 great science and tech books to give as presents this Christmas | |
| Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains | |
| Darkfield's Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead | |
| Roadkill deaths halved on Australian road thanks to a fence of sound | |
| The truth about supplements: do they work and should you take them? | |
| EU set to resist air industry attempts to limit climate change action | |
| CRISPR scientist says another woman is pregnant with an edited embryo | |
| Seagrass loss off the coast of Kenya is fuelling climate change | |
| Some honeybees have four parents or no mother â and we donât know why | |
| The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature | |
| The best pollution masks for cyclists block half of bad particles | |
| Rats can make friends with robot rats and will rescue them when stuck | |
| Spacecraft to study marsquakes lands on Mars after 7 minutes of terror | |
| Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children | |
| Misuse of pregabalin painkiller has risen 900 per cent in Australia | |
| Worldâs first gene-edited babies announced by a scientist in China | |
| Exclusive: UK police wants AI to stop violent crime before it happens | |
| Breakdown of brain's autopilot mode may explain Parkinson's disease | |
| Bacterial World review â celebrating how bacteria made life on Earth | |
| Graphene generators could let you recharge a phone with your breath | |
| Smart mini-backpacks for chickens can monitor their welfare on farms | |
| MS symptoms improved by treatment that attacks glandular fever virus | |
| Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading | |
| Ancient hippo-like reptile was a giant to rival the dinosaurs | |
| Shallow Mexican seabed traps tsunamis so they strike land repeatedly | |
| Climate crisis as greenhouse gas levels reach record highs | |
| AI wades into the debate on age of ancient Chinese cave murals | |
| Cutting aerosol pollution may lessen extreme weather even with warming | |
| Parkinsonâs disease may start in the appendix and travel to the brain | |
| Spinal implants are getting better at reversing paralysis | |
| Neanderthals may have breastfed their young for more than two years | |
| Birds have their dinosaur ancestors to thank for their colourful eggs | |
| Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times | |
| Wild populations of animals have crashed by 60 per cent | |
| AI lie detection at border control should proceed with caution | |
| The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism | |
| Feedback: China space company announces plan for artificial moon | |
| Venezuelaâs cryptocurrency is about much more than its economic crisis | |
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| Hubble Space Telescope taken out of action by faulty gyroscopes | |
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| We've spotted the shock wave from an invisible explosion in space | |
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| Hundreds of physicists condemn sexist talk at CERN on women in physics | |
| IVF success boosted by drug that helps embryos implant in the womb | |
| How should we control the power to genetically eliminate a species? | |
| What you need to know about the big UN climate report out this week | |
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| Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for harnessing evolution to help humans | |
| Third lander arrives on asteroid Ryugu with only 16 hours to live | |
| Gaia spacecraft prepares to weather an incoming meteoroid storm | |
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| Physicist sparks gender row after claiming women are worse at physics | |
| Massive Facebook data breach left 50 million accounts exposed | |
| Cancer immune therapy recognised with Nobel Prize for medicine | |
| Thought police: Spotting cyber criminals before they break the law | |
| Over 800 people have died after a massive tsunami hit Indonesia | |
| US review of fetal research signals the return of the abortion wars | |
| China's Tiangong-2 space station is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere | |
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| Japanese space hoppers capture the sun moving across an asteroid sky | |
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| The oil change revolution | |
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| The 7 non-human mammals where females rule the roost | |
| New Scientist Live: Our report from the world's greatest science show | |
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| Devastation continues more than a week after Hurricane Florence | |
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| Nina Wright joins New Scientist as Chief Executive | |
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| Three people with paralysis can walk again with nerve-boosting implant | |
| Riemann hypothesis likely remains unsolved despite claimed proof | |
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| Infinity war: The ongoing battle over the world's hardest maths proof | |
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| NASAâs new exoplanet-hunter has spotted its first alien worlds | |
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| Watch now: Tim Peake at New Scientist Live | |
| Field notes: Polluted polar bears await the great Arctic land grab | |
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| Feedback: Elf and safety officer tackles Germany's troll roads | |
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| The mystery of the dinosaur with crocodile jaws, bear claws and a sail | |
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| 10 mysteries of the universe: Why does anything exist at all? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: Is there life out there? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: What makes supermassive black holes? | |
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| 10 mysteries of the universe: What is dark matter? | |
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| 10 mysteries of the universe: How will it all end? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: What came before the big bang? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: How did it all begin? | |
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| Quantum mechanics may contradict itself when applied to big objects | |
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| SpaceXâs billionaire moon trip is all about building a luxury brand | |
| Artificial genes show life does not have to be based on DNA | |
| A third of us would go one-way to Mars â but it may shrink your brain | |
| Why wouldnât you want to live forever? New Scientist editors debate | |
| Only one in five UK adults would choose to live forever if they could | |
| Revealed: What the UK public really thinks about the future of science | |
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| Skin genetically engineered to destroy cocaine could prevent addiction | |
| Recreating star fusion on Earth could solve our energy crisis | |
| Hydrogen can form 'ghost bonds' with something that isn't even there | |
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| Why a rake on the moon messed up our theories of life on Earth | |
| New Scientist Live: space is full of junk and we must clean up our act | |
| Heart-tugging tales of crowdfunded cancer 'cures' fuel quack medicine | |
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| AI tries bad improv comedy to trick people into thinking it is human | |
| Acid is dribbling out of the melting permafrost in the Arctic | |
| Half the planet should be set aside for wildlife â to save ourselves | |
| Watch this robotic fruit fly swoop, dive and perform impressive flips | |
| New Apple Watch heart monitor sounds great â here's why it may not be | |
| Bandages laser-bonded to your skin may fix wounds better than stitches | |
| BPA-free plastics seem to disrupt sperm and egg development in mice | |
| New Scientist Live: what will gravitational waves tell us next? | |
| Just one tiny piece of plastic may be enough to kill a baby turtle | |
| Birds can learn to understand the meanings of other species' calls | |
| Gluten may be making you tired and depressed according to a new study | |
| Video: Meet the low carbon pioneers -- Kathrina Mannion | |
| Podcast: Meet Kathrina Mannion | |
| An antioxidant might lead to new therapies for bone arthritis | |
| We may have reached Madagascar 6000 years earlier than once thought | |
| New breast cancer gene tests will mean hard choices for many women | |
| Is the rise of populism over or only just beginning? | |
| Governor of California orders state to go carbon neutral by 2045 | |
| Next round of Paris climate talks hits sticking points | |
| Alcohol advisers threaten to quit health body due to industry links | |
| The Higgs hunter has just turned 10. Why is nobody celebrating? | |
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| Why creating a chemical brain will be how we understand consciousness | |
| Global warming is amplifying Hurricane Florenceâs destructive power | |
| It's an outrage that Turkey is ditching Darwin from science textbooks | |
| New Scientist Live: the death of the universe may not be inevitable | |
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