New Scientist - Environment

Why humanoid robots are missing the point

Why pour so much technological effort into developing a human-shaped robot when ...

Incredible close-up images of insects scoop photo conte...

A “smiling” damselfly and shimmering beetle captivated judges in the Royal Entom...

A spat over sand eels threatens puffins and other iconi...

Overfishing of small fish has led to population declines in the birds that feed ...

From doomy prophecies to epic dystopias, we are suckers...

Despite facing real existential threats like climate change, we remain too fasci...

New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Den...

Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne ...

Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s extraordinary new show, Deepstaria, is inspired b...

Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction nov...

In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club...

The best new science fiction books of March 2025

John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether ...

The alarming rise of colorectal cancer diagnoses in peo...

Colorectal cancers will soon be the number one cause of cancer death among peopl...

We now know how much global warming has delayed the nex...

Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast sugg...

Do world record snowflakes observed in 1887 stand up to...

The largest snowflake we know of was a 38-centimetre whopper. And despite scient...

Volcano in Ethiopia is releasing unusually large plumes...

Satellites have detected large volumes of methane spewing from Mount Fentale’s c...

In millions of years, what could a future civilisation ...

Millions of years after humans vanish, fossil clues showing how we lived and dom...

We are finally getting to grips with how plate tectonic...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this beg...

Earth wouldn’t have ice caps without eroding rocks and ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the pas...

California’s groundwater drought continues despite torr...

Seismic measurement of Los Angeles’s depleted aquifers show a year of heavy prec...

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