New Scientist - Environment

The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's...

A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical meas...

Plant skin grafts could result in new kinds of vegetables

A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimer...

Weekend workouts can be as valuable as exercising throu...

Squeezing exercise into one or two days a week seems to have similar health bene...

US government fired researchers running a crucial drug ...

A termination letter obtained by New Scientist reveals that the Trump administra...

How nothing could destroy the universe

The concept of nothing once sparked a 1000-year-long war, today it might explain...

NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelli...

Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and c...

Do Ozempic and Wegovy really cause hair loss?

As semaglutide-based weight loss treatments, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, become ...

The animals revealing why human culture isn't as specia...

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which ...

Monkeys use crafty techniques to get junk food from tou...

At the Dakshineswar temple complex in India, Hanuman langurs beg for food by gra...

US bridges are at risk of catastrophic ship collisions ...

After a container ship struck and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Balt...

Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't been s...

Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for p...

What the research says about the benefits of low-intens...

Low-intensity steady-state cardio has been touted as a way to lose weight and pu...

Stunning new animated series tells the story of a cure-...

A naturalist finds a hallucinogenic mushroom with the power to cure all ailments...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe asteroid 2024 YR...

The anus may have evolved from a hole originally used t...

The long-standing question of how animals came to have an anus may have been sol...

Could a new kind of carbon budget ensure top emitters p...

Some researchers propose that countries should start to rack up a carbon debt on...

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