New Scientist - Environment

Ancient camp shows how humans adapted to extreme cold i...

An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago docum...

Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just be sta...

Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet,...

Hackers could 'vandalise' quantum computers without peo...

Hackers may be able to garble the output of programs running on quantum computer...

First ever 'black hole bomb' created in the lab

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in th...

Chatbots can hide secret messages in seemingly normal c...

Text-generating AIs such as ChatGPT can be used to hide encrypted messages insid...

Ancient supervolcano eruption had surprisingly mild imp...

Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in se...

Virtual reality could help men understand the impacts o...

Men who were embodying female avatars via virtual reality felt anger and disgust...

Is Keir Starmer being advised by AI? The UK government ...

The UK government's Redbox AI chatbot is being used by thousands of civil servan...

US government defunds research on misinformation

The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformat...

The 'impossible' particle hinting at the universe's big...

Neutrinos have always been hard to explain – and now the detection of one so ene...

Earthquakes could be an overlooked source of undergroun...

Laboratory measurements of crushed quartz suggest earthquakes generate huge volu...

Humans evolved to survive mild burns at the expense of ...

Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have...

US plans massive health database to study autism – will...

The US government’s proposal for a vast health database to study autism could im...

A new version of the periodic table could change how we...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveal...

How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men's il...

The enigmatic Y chromosome has a tendency to disappear from cells with age. Now,...

'Dark photon' theory of light aims to tear up a century...

One of the most famous findings in physics could be wrong – the double-slit expe...

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