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Marcus du Sautoy's new book is good on maths, less so o...

The mathematician is out to show the close link between maths and the arts. This...

Don't ban kids from social media; create a site that wo...

Rather than simply keeping children away from social media, we need a specially ...

Can we get better at spotting when someone is lying?

A reader wonders if they can become less gullible. Our science-based advice colu...

Climate drama Families Like Ours deserves to be a word-...

A disturbing new Danish TV series, which follows a wealthy family as rising seas...

Dementia cases are rising faster in China than the rest...

Cases of dementia doubled worldwide between 1990 and 2021, but more than quadrup...

99.999 per cent of the deep seabed remains unexplored b...

Deep-sea submersibles have been diving for decades, but records show that we hav...

Record heat in 2023 and 2024 may just have been natural...

Simulations suggest that an extraordinary jump in temperatures seen in 2023 and ...

Major US cities like New York and Seattle are sinking a...

Groundwater extraction, plate tectonics and consequences of the last glacial per...

The maths that tells us when a scientific discovery is ...

When huge scientific discoveries are made, you may hear that they are “statistic...

Europe increasingly vulnerable to hailstones the size o...

Very large hail – hailstones more than 5 centimetres in diameter – poses a growi...

Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we d...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its w...

All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuffed ou...

Our bodies emit a stream of low-energy photons, and now experiments in mice have...

Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off the r...

With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shak...

Our favourite science fiction books of all time (the on...

Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more...

Was a famous supernova an alien invader from another ga...

Kepler's Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever...

Chimps share 'building blocks of musical rhythm' with h...

Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trai...

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