New Scientist - Environment

What makes a good day a good day, according to science

Surveys that ask thousands of people how they spend their time have revealed som...

How breaking the rules of tic-tac-toe makes it way more...

Noughts and crosses, or tic-tac-toe, is a simple game – but twist the rules and ...

Terrific drama shows the battle for girls' education in...

The odds are stacked against an all-female robotics team in Rule Breakers, a fan...

The surprising new idea behind what sparked life on Earth

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it co...

We may have discovered how dark oxygen is being made in...

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxyg...

Starlink satellite part hit a Canadian farm when it fel...

A failed launch left a batch of Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit last year...

Mathematicians solve 125-year-old problem to unite key ...

Can one single mathematical framework describe the motion of a fluid and the ind...

Memory illusion makes you think events occurred earlier...

It can be difficult to recall exactly when a specific event happened, and now it...

Should governments really be using AI to remake the state?

New Scientist's revelation that a UK minister is asking ChatGPT for advice raise...

More than half of life on Earth experiencing unpreceden...

An analysis of changes to global ecosystems has revealed that almost nowhere is ...

Why the long history of calculating pi will never be co...

Building the full value of pi has been a project thousands of years in the makin...

How cloud-seeding could help us predict when it will snow

These brilliant images show how researchers in Switzerland are using weather-mod...

AI scientists are sceptical that modern models will lea...

In a survey of AI researchers, most say current AI models are unlikely to lead t...

Hypnotic art has its roots in the terrifying reality of...

In his Atomic series, artist James Stanford showcases "the spectacle and the hor...

Exhibition uses art to explore the mysteries of the qua...

Cosmic Titans, a new exhibition at the University of Nottingham, UK, is a powerf...

You could train your brain to be less fooled by optical...

Shifting your focus could help you overcome the trickery of optical illusions

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