New Scientist - Environment

How humans survived a global climate catastrophe 8200 y...

Plummeting temperatures forced some human populations to adapt to the new condit...

Alien megastructures would likely self-destruct before ...

Dyson spheres, a type of huge megastructure designed to capture the energy outpu...

New way to pull uranium from water can help China's nuc...

Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as ...

A dramatic rethink of Parkinson’s offers new hope for t...

Mounting evidence suggests there might be two separate types of the world’s fast...

Chronicling nature activism in a coastal corner of India

Intertidal is Yuvan Aves's extraordinary, personal exploration of the rich wildl...

How astonishing observatories could do big physics from...

As humanity prepares to return to the moon, scientists also have ideas for huge ...

Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – an...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally b...

Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over t...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that...

Should you water your orchid with ice cubes?

There's a fierce debate raging in the horticulture world over whether adding ice...

Photography contest spotlights the beauty of science in...

A collection of images from Imperial College London's photography competition un...

'Bone collector' caterpillar wears dead insect body par...

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can...

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...

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