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An AI tool trained on chemical signatures from corpse-eating insects may help determine time and place of death for victims of violent crimes.... Read more »

Cancer patients who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within a few months of their immunotherapy lived longer than those who did not, health records show.... Read more »

A new Nanotyrannus fossil suggests the diminutive dino lived alongside T. rex in the late Cretaceous Period.... Read more »

A type of Japanese dogsbane releases a scent identical to wounded ants’ distress signal, drawing in scavenging flies that unwittingly pollinate it.... Read more »

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.... Read more »

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.... Read more »

Scientists found thousands of patterned fish nests in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, boosting calls for marine protected areas.... Read more »

The open-source AI model improves transparency in predicting how proteins interact with other molecules, which could speed up drug discovery.... Read more »

Scientists have linked bipedalism to changes in how the human pelvis developed millions of years ago.... Read more »

The story of Atlantic hurricanes is treading a familiar — and frightening — path: Climate change is fueling huge, slow-moving, rain-drenching storms.... Read more »

A new study shows how much food polar bears leave behind — and how their decline threatens scavengers across the Arctic.... Read more »

DNA and stone tool comparisons suggest Eastern European Neandertals trekked 3,000 kilometers to Siberia, where they left a genetic and cultural mark.... Read more »

With a high-speed camera and a tiny guillotine, scientists showed that chopping onions slowly and with sharper knives cuts down on tears.... Read more »

These tropical forest CO₂ emissions may warn of similar shifts in other regions, a key topic for COP30 climate talks in Brazil.... Read more »

Researchers in the United States recently worked on AI-powered muscles, made from lifelike materials, paired...... Read more »

MIT scientists have designed nanoparticles that could make cancer immunotherapy work better against ovarian tumors,...... Read more »

In a breakthrough that could reshape solar power, scientists at UNSW Sydney have shown how...... Read more »

Wood, long admired for its natural beauty and strength, has now inspired a carbon material...... Read more »

An AI-guided method developed by US researchers has led to the first successful pregnancy, marking...... Read more »

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has moved to end a decades-old dental habit, restricting...... Read more »

In a leap that could reshape how scientists study the human body in space, researchers...... Read more »

Caretakers have spotted dogs turning blue near the Chernobyl power plant’s exclusive zone. A team...... Read more »

In a stunning leap for energy storage science, researchers at Yonsei University have developed a...... Read more »

Scientists predict that global warming could make El Niño far more powerful and consistent than before. High-resolution models show that within decades, the Pacific may hit a tipping point, locking Earth into intense, rhythmic climate cycles. This synchronization of global systems could increase extreme weather and rainfall variability around the... Read more »

Scientists have uncovered how massive underwater waves triggered by iceberg calving secretly fuel glacier melt in Greenland. Iceberg calving takes place when large sections of ice detach from the edges of glaciers and plunge into the ocean. This natural event is one of the main contributors to the rapid ice... Read more »

A ghostly “cosmic bat” nebula, glowing red with newborn stars, has been captured by ESO’s telescope in Chile. Just in time for Halloween, astronomers have captured the image of a bat-like figure soaring across the night sky over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile. Using its exceptionally... Read more »

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that certain AI models can develop self-seeking behavior. A new study from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science suggests that as artificial intelligence systems become more advanced, they also tend to behave more selfishly. Researchers from the university’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)... Read more »

MIT physicists have unveiled a groundbreaking way to explore the hidden interior of atoms, without the need for massive particle colliders. By binding radium atoms with fluoride to form radium monofluoride molecules, they used the atom’s own electrons as probes to momentarily enter the nucleus and carry back subtle “messages”... Read more »

Texas A&M researchers have unlocked a new way to harness astatine-211, a rare and powerful isotope that may revolutionize cancer treatment. Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on the planet and among the least explored in the periodic table, largely because its name, derived from the Greek word for... Read more »

Researchers at the University of São Paulo have discovered a molecule in arachnid venom that behaves like a commonly used chemotherapy drug for treating the disease, with preliminary findings presented at FAPESP Week France. The venom of a scorpion native to the Amazon rainforest may hold the key to a... Read more »

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have applied a new imaging method to a ground-based telescope, allowing a UCLA-led research team to capture the most precise view ever recorded of a star’s surrounding disk. This advancement revealed... Read more »

The Taurid meteor shower’s dazzling “Halloween fireballs” may be more than just a cosmic show. New research led by Mark Boslough suggests that clusters of larger debris could swing near Earth in 2032 and 2036, potentially heightening impact risks. Taurid Meteor Shower: Halloween’s Fiery Sky Spectacle Each year from late... Read more »

Japanese scientists have found that a small change in plant proteins explains why pumpkins and zucchini absorb more pollution than other crops. The proteins help transport toxins through the plant’s sap. By modifying this process, researchers hope to grow vegetables that resist contamination—or use plants to cleanse toxic soils. The... Read more »

From mini-brains and spider-inspired gloves to edible wolf apple coatings and microplastic-filled retinas, scientists are transforming creepy concepts into life-improving innovations. Lab-grown brain organoids could replace animal testing, web-slinging gloves can spin instant wound dressings, and wolf apple starch may keep veggies fresh longer. Meanwhile, the discovery of microplastics in... Read more »

Scientists have visualized the brain’s hidden heartbeat, unlocking new clues to aging and Alzheimer’s. Scientists at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have unveiled a breakthrough brain imaging method that captures how the brain’s tiniest blood vessels... Read more »

A little-known desert berry may hold the key to fighting diabetes. Scientists may have uncovered a surprising new weapon in the fight against diabetes: the fruit of an ancient desert plant. Known as Nitraria roborowskii Kom, this resilient shrub has long been used in traditional medicine but has only recently... Read more »

A single mutation in the YFT3 gene turns tomatoes yellow by disrupting a crucial pigment-producing enzyme. Researchers have discovered that a single genetic change in the YFT3 gene disrupts a vital enzyme involved in producing carotenoids, the pigments responsible for tomato coloration. The gene encodes the isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase enzyme,... Read more »

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the quantum level reflect reality - a new test suggests they do... Read more »

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of this species than we thought... Read more »

A sheet of fabric that is three times stronger than Kevlar could stop a bullet despite being just 1.8 millimetres thick, thanks to the addition of carbon nanotubes that keep its molecules aligned... Read more »

Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator... Read more »

Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut bacteria might affect children’s emotional development... Read more »

From Claire North’s new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikovsky book, there’s lots to watch out for in November’s science fiction... Read more »

The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain's prize-winning popular science book about neurology... Read more »

In this passage from the opening of Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to her protagonists as they spend time in a virtual utopia which is becoming increasingly tempting in a dying world... Read more »

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical implications of the choices her characters make... Read more »

The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the preservative properties of copper... Read more »

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are exciting, but there is no reason to claim that they are evidence of alien spacecraft – sometimes a comet is just comet, says Robin George Andrews... Read more »

Standard techniques for removing kidney stones often require repeated surgery, but a magnetic gel seems to make the process more efficient... Read more »

President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy but effective treaties banning the practice – but will it actually happen?... Read more »

Palaeontologists have argued for decades over whether certain fossils are young Tyrannosaurus rex or another species entirely – now they have strong evidence that the diminutive Nanotyrannus really existed... Read more »

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