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Why controversial ideas in science shouldn't always be dismissed
Researchers suggesting that the keto diet could treat mental health conditions find themselves uncomfortably aligned with people like vaccine-sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr, but that …
Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director
With its origins in a creepy image posted on 4chan, Backrooms is an unusually potent big-screen experiment in fear and perception, says Davide Abbatescianni
Striking photos show how sands are encroaching on oases in the Sahara
A photo essay from Tommy Trenchard explores efforts to protect the fragile ecosystems of oases in Chad
Think you have a good sense of humour? So do most people…
Feedback is alarmed by a study that explored how funny people think they are, and discovered certain traits in those who rate themselves the most …
New Scientist recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds
Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall
Wolves seen hunting European bison in rare camera-trap recording
Europe’s largest land animal, the bison, is thought to be relatively unthreatened by predators, but footage from Białowieża Primaeval Forest in Poland shows it does …
Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’
Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old …
Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history
The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing …
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could destroy the ozone layer
Climate models suggest a small nuclear war in the tropics would do even more damage to the ozone layer than a larger nuclear war in …
Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to …
A Waymo nearly hit me, but I'm still optimistic about driverless cars
A near miss with a Waymo while cycling through London hasn't changed my optimistic stance on driverless cars, but we can't ever let our guard …
Robots are about to overtake armed soldiers as the deciders of war
Uncrewed ground vehicles have already been tested for defending the front line by the Ukrainian military. Despite their limitations, these remotely controlled robots could be …
Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead
Scrape marks inside a skull and sharpened limb bones in a set of remains found in Scotland may be evidence of unusual Iron Age funerary …
Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species
A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the …
The last-ditch plan to save coral reefs from utter destruction
Bleaching has devastated reefs around the world, raising fears of an irreversible shift. Yet new interventions have revealed that corals can be remarkably resilient if …
Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site stayed hot for millions of years
Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with …
A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right …
Brown dwarfs are somewhere between the size of a planet and a star, so how could we have potentially mistaken two of them for distant …
Why we should all take quantum physics extremely personally
Physics is considered a cold, hard science – but it will transform your life if you view it with a bit more subjectivity, says Karmela …
You don't need to worry about recursive-self-improving AI – yet
Anthropic has warned that recursive-self-improving AI could be on the horizon, but the truth is the company is more immediately concerned with marketing itself for …
What really happened when ancient humans migrated out of Africa
The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have been one moment in time, but …
What is a ‘normal’ memory slowdown, and when should I worry?
Lapses in memory are a normal part of ageing but can also be signs of dementia. Here’s how to distinguish between typical brain ageing and …
Wildlife thrives in solar farm built on restored peatland
A diverse range of bird species has been recorded at a solar park on rewetted peatland in Germany, suggesting that combining energy generation with habitat …
Can Apple and Google stop children from sharing explicit images?
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned tech firms, including Apple and Google, that they must voluntarily implement tools to stop children sharing explicit images, …
Half the world's reservoirs could be clogged up with dirt by 2060
Each decade the world is losing over 7 per cent of its freshwater storage capacity to sediment build-up, according to an analysis of over half …
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