WETENSCHAP EN TECHNOLOGIE BL – 2

Canada has had more than a year of continuous measles transmission. The United States has until January to limit cases before losing status.... Read more »

As action from the U.N.’s huge COP30 international meeting falls short, smaller groups are banding together to find ways to fight climate change.... Read more »

A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded the sounds of electrical discharges generated by dusty gusts.... Read more »

Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a recently discovered species that may shake up the human family tree.... Read more »

Like exercise, gratitude takes many forms. Finding the right practice, research shows, is up to the individual.... Read more »

Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.... Read more »

Simulations show that subsurface oceans on small moons may hit boiling conditions, potentially creating features like Miranda’s distinctive ridges.... Read more »

Colorful lichen living on dinosaur bones reflect infrared light that can be detected by drones, which might lead to finds in remote areas.... Read more »

Takanori Takebe’s strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has surprisingly sentimental origins: helping his dad.... Read more »

The grisly infrared camera footage records a never-before-seen hunting tactic. It may have implications for bat conservation.... Read more »

In people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, researchers linked minimal to moderate physical activity to a 3-to 7-year delay in cognitive symptoms.... Read more »

Nancy Shute, Editor in Chief, discusses big advances across science in 2025 as well as the assault on science by the Trump administration.... Read more »

These five early- and mid-career researchers are shaking up what we know about the Arctic, black holes and beyond.... Read more »

Expectations of continued success for American science were shaken this year when the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in funding and fired thousands of scientists.... Read more »

The U.S. Army is set to get modern fighting vehicles that provide enhanced survivability, mobility...... Read more »

Fragmentation, the way objects break into pieces, has long intrigued scientists. Researchers have observed that...... Read more »

A Paris-based company has started the production of a control console for a new type...... Read more »

Archaeologists are bringing to a close a long-running and award-winning excavation at the 12th-century historic...... Read more »

Although it’s not immediately obvious at first glance, the giant radar platform anchored in Pearl...... Read more »

Texas researchers have now definitively dated a distinctive rock art tradition, a profound discovery shared...... Read more »

Researchers from Wuhan University have developed a new framework that could help robots manipulate objects...... Read more »

Quantum computers promise to tackle problems that are unsolvable for today’s machines, but their basic...... Read more »

Researchers from Rutgers University have figured out a way to make plastics that can be...... Read more »

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the continent today. Deep Heat Beneath the Appalachians Linked to Ancient Rift A broad area of unusually warm rock located... Read more »

A powerful earthquake that struck Calama in 2024 defied long-held assumptions about how deep earthquakes behave. In July 2024, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the city of Calama in northern Chile, damaging structures and cutting power across the area. Chile is no stranger to major seismic events, including the largest earthquake... Read more »

Climate simulations reveal that Day Zero Drought conditions are approaching rapidly worldwide, putting vast populations at risk of severe water scarcity. A new study in Nature Communications from researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in the Republic of Korea finds that global warming... Read more »

A subtle timing flash may expose the Unruh effect. The approach ties ordinary lab tools to deep quantum physics. Researchers at Stockholm University and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali have identified a practical method for detecting one of physics’ most unusual predictions: the Unruh effect.... Read more »

Researchers have created gyromorphs, a new material that controls light more effectively than any structure used so far in photonic chips. These hybrid patterns combine order and disorder in a way that stops light from entering from any angle. The discovery solves major limitations found in quasicrystals and other engineered... Read more »

New Mars Express images show grooves, ridges, and crater patterns carved by ancient glaciers. These icy flows once reached well into Mars’s mid-latitudes, far from the poles. Their presence reveals powerful climate shifts driven by changes in the planet’s tilt. Together, these features offer one of the clearest records of... Read more »

Disrupting the chemical messages that oral bacteria use to coordinate growth may help prevent disease by keeping plaque communities in a healthier state. Like all living things, bacteria adapt in order to survive. Over time, many have become resistant to widely used antibiotics and disinfectants, creating growing challenges for healthcare... Read more »

A new study from Aarhus University shows that the updated Nordic dietary guidelines, designed to support both human and planetary health, are linked to increased longevity. A new study from Aarhus University reports that the new Nordic dietary guidelines, which aim to support both human health and environmental well-being, are... Read more »

Nasal nanodrops carrying gold-based spherical nucleic acids can slip into the brain and activate powerful immune pathways that target glioblastoma. In mice, the treatment cleared tumors and produced long-lasting protection when used with T-cell-boosting drugs. Noninvasive Nanomedicine Breakthrough for Deadly Brain Cancer Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in... Read more »

A long-lost Bolivian killifish has been found alive, revealing a globally important hotspot for seasonal killifish diversity at risk from deforestation. Researchers have confirmed the rediscovery of Moema claudiae, a seasonal killifish from Bolivia that had been considered possibly extinct. Finding this species again brings renewed optimism for its protection... Read more »

Gut bacteria shown to produce serotonin, revealing new pathways for IBS therapy. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have uncovered new details about how gut bacteria interact with the body in people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Their experiments show that gut bacteria are capable of producing serotonin,... Read more »

EMBL researchers have created a new AI tool that uses a “molecular laser tag” approach to identify cells capable of revealing the earliest origins of cancer. The human body depends on accurate genetic instructions to keep its cells working properly. Cancer begins to form when these instructions become disrupted. As... Read more »

Penn State scientists discovered seven new ceramics by simply removing oxygen—opening a path to materials once beyond reach. Sometimes, less truly is more. By removing oxygen during the synthesis process, a team of materials scientists at Penn State successfully created seven new high-entropy oxides (HEOs)—a class of ceramics made from... Read more »

A study with IPHES CERCA redefines the role of scavenging in human evolution and shows that it was an efficient strategy that complemented hunting and gathering. A research group from IPHES-CERCA took part in a project led by the National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH) that revisits how consuming... Read more »

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up Australia. Now, a genetic study has edged us closer to understanding how and when they achieved this... Read more »

Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip specially designed for AI – to other tech companies, a move that could unsettle the dominant chip-maker Nvidia... Read more »

Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at this time could be at least partly to blame... Read more »

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017... Read more »

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment... Read more »

New Scientist Book Club members share their thoughts on our November read, Grace Chan's Every Version of You... Read more »

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Iain M. Banks's classic sci-fi novel The Player of Games. In this extract, we meet protagonist Gurgeh for the first time... Read more »

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her... Read more »

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have spotted the first hints that they are real... Read more »

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in China a different species of cat lived alongside people much earlier... Read more »

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size any brittle object will break into... Read more »

Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for "unprecedented societal and ecological collapse"... Read more »

Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today... Read more »

Chytrid fungus is a scourge to global amphibian populations, but before it kills some frogs, it can produce symptoms that may help the infected animals find mates and spread the fungus further... Read more »

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