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Why the sleep industry has got us worrying about the wrong things
Many of us obsess over how much sleep we get each night, and the dangers to our health of not getting enough, but really, there …
Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi
Post-apocalyptic bunker sci-fi is huge this year as TV front-runners Fallout, Paradise and Silo return. Bethan Ackerley asks whether this is a signal we’ve given …
New Scientist recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Amazing sneak peek of NASA's spacesuit tests as moon mission nears
NASA crew members practise emergency rescue drills in a 40-foot-deep pool simulating the lunar surface, as part of tests on a new generation of spacesuit, …
The Human Flatus Atlas plans to measure the explosivity of farts
Feedback is excited to learn that University of Maryland researchers are measuring farts in a bid to build a Human Flatus Atlas, a project that …
What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar …
From ice ages to asteroid strikes, an epic book shows how important it has been for humans to look outwards. Alex Wilkins surveys a climate …
Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%
Eating nothing but oatmeal for just two days might sound extreme, but it delivered a striking payoff in a new clinical trial. People with metabolic …
New drug target discovered for devastating “brain on fire” disease
Scientists have zeroed in on a critical weak spot behind a rare but devastating brain autoimmune disorder often known as “Brain on Fire.” The disease …
Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken
The alvarezsaurs were thought to have evolved a smaller stature because of their diet of ants and termites, but a new fossil found in Argentina …
The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions – if we can …
The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour …
A giant weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field is now half the …
Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot …
NASA study finds ancient life could survive 50 million years in Martian …
Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions …
Scientists discover hidden sugar layer behind psoriasis
A gel-like sugar coating on immune cells has been found to play a starring role in psoriasis. Researchers discovered that immune cells shed this outer …
Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier
The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such …
A simple chemical tweak could supercharge quantum computers
Quantum computers need special materials called topological superconductors—but they’ve been notoriously difficult to create. Researchers have now shown they can trigger this exotic state by …
Lost fossils reveal sea monsters that took over after Earth’s greatest extinction
A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single …
New brain stimulation approach could treat depression in just 5 days
A weeklong, high-intensity version of TMS may work nearly as well as the standard six-week treatment for depression. In a UCLA study, patients who received …
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
Scientists finally solve the mystery of the horse whinny
Horses have a vocal trick no one fully understood until now. Scientists have discovered that when a horse whinnies, it produces two completely different sounds …
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals
Researchers have detected microplastics in nearly all prostate cancer tumors examined in a new study. Tumor tissue contained about 2.5 times more plastic than nearby …
40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing
More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new …
Rapamycin can add years to your life, or none at all – …
The drug rapamycin has been held up for its life-extending properties, but whether this treatment – or fasting – actually adds years to your life …
Lipid nanoparticles engineered to target therapeutic RNA to the pancreas
Nature, Published online: 25 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00294-5A two-pronged strategy directs drug-delivering nanoparticles to the pancreas — and shows promise in animal models of serious pancreatic …
Sea-urchin spines generate electrical signals in flowing water
Nature, Published online: 25 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00374-6The spines of sea urchins can generate a voltage when water moves around them — a phenomenon that could …
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