A report from the US Environmental Protection Agency found that routine releases of toxic chemicals were on the rise recently, though they a..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367026-us-toxic-chemical-emissions-to-air-water-and-soil-increased-in-2021/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

By consuming oxygen near to tumours, the battery makes a class of experimental drugs target oxygen-free cancerous cells more effectively
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367295-cancer-tumours-in-mice-shrunk-thanks-to-oxygen-sucking-battery/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Under the laws of quantum mechanics, information about what has fallen into a black hole cannot be destroyed, and now researchers claim they..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367328-we-may-finally-know-how-hawkings-black-hole-paradox-could-be-solved/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Many people feel an uncanny "presence" when no one is there. Ben Alderson-Day explores why this is, in a lively and comprehensive book
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734322-200-presence-review-a-lively-look-at-why-we-experience-ghostly-presences/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Sarah Hart's engaging book about how central maths is to literature by authors from George Eliot to Georges Perec is a homage to both subjec..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734321-000-once-upon-a-prime-review-the-connections-between-maths-and-fiction/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Mapping the volcanoes of Venus is surprisingly easier than doing the same on Earth, because many of the volcanoes on our planet are hidden b..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367101-this-map-of-venus-shows-every-volcano-we-know-about-on-its-surface/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The wellness industry tells us we can be healthier and more productive through quick fixes and supplements. Author Colleen Derkatch investig..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2365983-why-we-fall-for-wellness-even-when-the-science-says-it-doesnt-work/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The thalamus is the brain's relay station for sensory information, but a study in mice has found it may also play a role in memory processing
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366970-memories-may-be-sorted-by-the-thalamus-before-being-stored-long-term/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Just about every popular depiction of predatory dinosaurs is wrong, because their teeth were probably mostly obscured from view rather than ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367080-t-rexs-terrifying-teeth-would-have-been-hidden-behind-scaly-lips/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Older cells may fail to make proteins or may make proteins that don't function as they should, in a discovery that could lead to new drug ta..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367137-the-ageing-of-cells-may-be-due-to-errors-that-harm-protein-production/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An analysis of flood data from 101 rivers in Germany and the US has identified clues that indicate a danger of unprecedented extreme flooding
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367089-new-way-to-predict-river-flood-risk-could-help-prepare-for-disasters/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Extra cerebrospinal fluid – which normally flushes out waste - was pumped into the brain after people watched intense visual stimuli
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367055-the-brain-may-flush-out-its-waste-products-after-a-mental-workout/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Observations from five spacecraft over 40 years have shown that as Saturn’s rings slowly disintegrate, the particles fall into the planet’s ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367202-bits-of-saturns-rings-are-falling-onto-the-planet-and-heating-it-up/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

It would be the ultimate in personalised medicine: a digital version of your body, which doctors could use to predict what diseases might be..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734322-100-virtual-you-review-the-quest-to-build-your-digital-twin/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers have tweaked structures made by bacteria so that they can target human cells and inject proteins into them, a trick that could l..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366903-nanosyringes-could-inject-drugs-into-specific-cells-in-our-bodies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Fibrous protein threads hold together the mucus in hagfish slime, giving it up to 1000 times the clogging power of common thickeners like xa..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366681-how-hagfish-slime-gets-its-incredible-clogging-ability/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

[tbc] The record for the maximum human lifespan has stayed unbroken since the 1990s but that might change, according to a new way of analysi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366876-how-long-can-humans-live-we-may-not-have-hit-the-limit-yet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An experiment that probed particles called gluons, which contain most of the mass of a proton, has revealed that a proton’s radius alters de..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366932-protons-seem-to-be-a-different-size-depending-on-how-you-look-at-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

OpenAI’s ChatGPT labelled text samples used in AI training with more accuracy than people did. The approach could automate some of the human..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366979-chatgpt-outperforms-humans-at-labelling-some-data-for-other-ais/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Forget vanity, there is a much better reason to care about your laughter lines – wrinkles may be driving ageing in your body and brain via z..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366093-the-radical-new-theory-that-wrinkles-actually-cause-ageing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A hydrogel battery that can perform well at below-freezing temperatures and survive all sorts of damage could keep phones working even when ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366639-ultra-tough-battery-survives-hammer-blows-and-being-run-over-by-a-car/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Carbon emissions within the next 50 years could lead to a tipping point where large parts of the Greenland ice sheet melt over the next 10,0..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366749-next-10000-years-of-greenland-ice-sheet-could-be-decided-this-century/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In the past two decades, death rates from drug overdoses have dramatically increased among adults 65 years and older living in the US
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366761-drug-overdose-deaths-have-quadrupled-among-older-us-adults/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The number of people under 50 with cancer is increasing in many countries and for many different tumour types. Why this is occurring isn't e..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366565-cancer-mystery-as-cases-rise-among-younger-people-around-the-world/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

When loud helicopters or fighter jets pass overhead, Colorado checkered whiptail lizards spend less time moving around and more time eating ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2365868-lizards-on-a-us-army-base-are-stress-eating-due-to-helicopter-noise/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

How a pioneering canopy researcher unlocked the mysteries of an extraordinary ecosystem and the unlikely tree-dwelling plants it depends on
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734320-100-nalini-nadkarni-the-ecologist-revealing-the-secrets-of-cloud-forests/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Some male cockroaches have adapted their mating strategy to succeed with females that have developed a distaste for the sugar used in both p..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366716-our-attempts-to-kill-cockroaches-forced-them-to-evolve-new-sex-moves/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A gamma ray burst observed in 2022 was brighter than any explosion ever spotted before, and follow-up observations are threatening to break ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366440-the-most-powerful-space-explosion-ever-seen-keeps-baffling-astronomers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Advisers to the UK government warn that failure to plan for the effects of climate change is putting the country at risk of threats such as ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366558-the-uk-has-almost-no-credible-plans-to-adapt-to-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are attracted to people despite not drinking blood, suggesting they hang around us to find thirsty females
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366197-male-mosquitoes-may-hang-around-humans-to-pick-up-females/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers and start-ups are exploring a variety of ways of locking up carbon in the sea, from seaweed farming to fertilising the oceans wi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366476-can-we-counter-climate-change-by-dumping-carbon-in-the-ocean/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A method for mixing glass particles into a soft material, folding the mixture like origami, then applying heat to melt it can be used to bui..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366153-origami-glass-technique-produces-hard-to-make-shapes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Apocalyptic predictions about energy shortages in the past six months have failed to materialise, but with Russia's war in Ukraine ongoing, ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366020-europe-survived-its-winter-energy-crisis-but-what-happens-next-year/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People who have obesity and lose weight through behavioural weight loss programmes have lower risks for heart disease and type 2 diabetes ye..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366432-losing-weight-is-good-for-your-health-even-if-you-regain-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The one-atom-thick layer of carbon known as graphene can split hydrogen 100 times more efficiently than an equivalent mass of the best catal..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366074-graphene-with-ripples-could-help-make-better-hydrogen-fuel-cells/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Wild seabirds that ingest high levels of microplastics have an overall greater diversity of microbes in their gut, which has unknown consequ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366045-microplastics-are-changing-the-gut-microbiomes-of-seabirds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Many researchers thought the worlds orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 would have thick atmospheres, but new observations of one of them show that..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366236-jwst-finds-the-planet-trappist-1b-may-not-have-an-atmosphere/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Primordial black holes older than the big bang could rewrite cosmology by providing evidence for a previous universe. It's a wild idea, but ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734320-300-the-hunt-for-black-holes-older-than-the-universe-itself/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Protecting or expanding the populations of nine key groups of animals, including wolves and whales, would remove huge amounts of carbon from..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366378-restoring-just-nine-groups-of-animals-could-help-combat-global-warming/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Glass beads created by meteoroid impacts on the lunar surface should contain enough water for future astronauts to use
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366405-astronauts-could-mine-drinking-water-from-glass-beads-on-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A projection of how the global population will change by the Club of Rome is far below United Nations estimates and numbers could drop even ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366088-reducing-inequality-could-see-world-population-fall-to-6-billion/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

You may have seen these images of Pope Francis looking stylish in a puffer jacket on social media, but you might not have realised they were..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366312-should-you-be-worried-that-an-ai-picture-of-the-pope-went-viral/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The physicist’s final theorem, about why the universe seems fine-tuned for life, contains some provocative predictions. Will they be as frui
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734313-200-stephen-hawkings-parting-shot-is-a-fresh-challenge-to-cosmologists/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Detailed 3D scans of embryos in the first three months of pregnancy may shed more light on whether they are delayed in growth, a possible si..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366124-miscarriages-may-be-more-likely-to-occur-with-slow-developing-embryos/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A facility in Massachusetts has been analysing thousands of wastewater samples from across the US every week, looking for viruses and signs ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2365459-inside-the-lab-that-looks-for-viruses-in-wastewater-from-us-homes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The flavour of fresh lemon is delicious, but this citrus fruit becomes even more wonderful when it is preserved in salt, says Sam Wong
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734311-200-why-preserving-your-lemons-in-salt-will-make-them-even-tastier/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A material made from two forms of cellulose, which is found in wood, reflects heat and can be made in a variety of colours
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366152-colourful-material-made-from-wood-could-help-keep-buildings-cool/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Snail shell fragments found in a cave in South Africa appear to have been heated, providing the earliest evidence for humans eating snails
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366118-ancient-humans-may-have-cooked-and-eaten-snails-170000-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers have mapped cell types in a mouse's brain, which could help us pinpoint the cells to target when treating various medical condit..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2365939-most-detailed-map-of-mouse-brain-includes-5200-different-types-of-cell/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Four films make up Atomic Light by video and installation artist David Blandy, a work marred by overstatement, but saved by the story of two..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734310-700-atomic-light-review-solar-astronomers-rescue-an-uneven-installation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home