Climate change has significantly increased the likelihood of bumblebees being driven to extinction in certain regions across North America and Europe | Continue reading
A mobile video game called Sea Hero Quest has been used to test navigation abilities, showing that people who grew up in cities are worse navigators than others | Continue reading
As governments evacuate foreign nationals from China, New Scientist speaks to a British man about life in Wuhan and why some people are choosing to stay | Continue reading
Using high-pressure jet nozzles to fire liquid Botox into the skin could be a less painful alternative to injections to treat sweaty armpits and palms | Continue reading
Strange, powerful blasts of radio waves from space called fast radio bursts sometimes flash repeatedly, but never with any discernible pattern – until now | Continue reading
A person who has ingested cocaine will excrete a compound that can be detected from a single fingerprint, even if they have washed their hands | Continue reading
Every day on Pluto, nitrogen puffs out the icy world’s heart-shaped plain into the atmosphere, and every night it refreezes, creating winds unlike any we’ve seen before | Continue reading
Babies whose immune cells produce more pathogen-fighting proteins are more likely to develop temporary or persistent asthma later in life | Continue reading
An extinct variety of date palm tree has been grown from ancient seeds preserved in the Judean desert for 2000 years, the oldest seeds ever germinated | Continue reading
An extinct variety of date palm tree has been grown from ancient seeds preserved in the Judean desert for 2000 years, the oldest seeds ever germinated | Continue reading
Psychologist Suzi Gage is on a mission to uncover the truth and bust misconceptions about the drugs people take, and in the process find out the science behind them | Continue reading
Fifty years ago, psychiatrist David Rosenhan went undercover in a psychiatric hospital to expose its dark side. But his shocking findings aren't what they seem, reveals Susannah Cahalan | Continue reading
Here's how to use chocolate's crystalline structure to your advantage to make delicious tempered chocolate | Continue reading
The Wuhan coronavirus is the latest example of an infection that jumped from animals into humans – and when infections do this, they can be particularly deadly | Continue reading
More countries are setting targets to reach net zero carbon emissions. Though it has its problems, this approach shows promising signs of sparking serious action, writes Graham Lawton | Continue reading
Our largest encyclopedia overwhelmingly recognises the achievements of white men. For physicist Jess Wade, fighting this bias has been an uphill battle | Continue reading
With the help of their webs, spiders are capable of foresight, planning, learning and other smarts that indicate they may possess consciousness | Continue reading
The worst invasion by desert locusts in decades has hit Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. The swarms are destroying crops and could cost millions of dollars to contain | Continue reading
Mudskippers are known for their unusual ability to climb trees, but now they have been spotted hopping across water. They are thought to be a living example of how fish transitioned to land | Continue reading
The most important climate talks for years are already becoming political. This needs to stop if we have any chance of success at COP26, says Adam Vaughan | Continue reading
We still don't know the death rate, the number of cases or how easily the Wuhan coronavirus spreads, making it difficult to predict how the outbreak will pan out | Continue reading
The Wuhan coronavirus has exploded in China. There are three likely scenarios for what will happen next – and the bad news is that a pandemic looks difficult to avoid | Continue reading
The rise of renewable energy means nuclear power is on the decline, despite many people thinking it still has an important role in the fight against climate change | Continue reading
Deserted streets, lines at pharmacies and overwhelmed hospitals – what life is like at the heart of China’s coronavirus epidemic | Continue reading
One of civilisation’s most revolutionary inventions was long thought to be the brainchild of ancient Egyptian scribes. But its true creators may have been far less glamorous | Continue reading
A team was able to uncover a dog's DNA in a research database - and it could mean the privacy of people who volunteer for genetic studies is at risk | Continue reading
Skin patches and contact lenses that change colour when exposed to UV light could provide us with a visual alert to apply sunscreen or seek some shade | Continue reading
A yarn-like material made from human skin cells could be used for surgery and complex tissue reconstruction without triggering an immune response | Continue reading
Cities are trying to cut levels of micrometre-scale particles in the air – but doing so leads to a rise in nanometre-scale particles that also damage health | Continue reading
Archaeologists want to know how humans reached Australia 65,000 years ago – so they have built a raft using Stone Age tools and are about to repeat the voyage | Continue reading
A group of astronomers has called for legal action to stop the launch of thousands of satellites designed by companies like SpaceX and OneWeb to beam high-speed internet around the world | Continue reading
A group of astronomers has called for legal action to stop the launch of thousands of satellites designed by companies like SpaceX and OneWeb to beam high-speed internet around the world | Continue reading
In our atmosphere, strange dense patches of charged air sometimes bounce radio waves around and disrupt radar – and now they have been spotted on Mars | Continue reading
Astronomers have spotted a star that is exploding with a brightness 100 times less than expected – and it’s a mystery exactly why the explosion is so dim | Continue reading
The economic shockwaves of coronavirus may eclipse those caused by the 2003 SARS pandemic, as analysts downgrade their forecasts for China's growth | Continue reading
Olm are salamanders that spend all their lives in pitch-black caves, and it turns out they don’t move very much – sometimes lurking in the same spot for years | Continue reading
Adam Rutherford's new book busts persistent myths about race, sexual prowess and intelligence that beset society, giving us a way to fight back | Continue reading
East Africa is being ravaged by vast swarms of desert locusts, which have taken advantage of ideal breeding conditions created by unusually heavy rainstorms | Continue reading
East Africa is being ravaged by vast swarms of desert locusts, which have taken advantage of ideal breeding conditions created by unusually heavy rainstorms | Continue reading
An oak-lined well unearthed in the Czech Republic is made of wood felled more than 7000 years ago – and some of the timber might have been recycled from an earlier structure | Continue reading
High concentrations of microplastics roughly halved the number of animals that are important to the ecosystems in lakes, ponds and canals | Continue reading
It’s not just about the sperm: the semen of male fish carries unidentified substances that influence how quickly the offspring develop and even how well they can swim | Continue reading
The latest US vaping figures show that while experimentation with e-cigarettes is on the rise, regular use is still quite rare among teenagers | Continue reading
Two members of the same family have tested positive for coronavirus in England, the Department of Health has confirmed | Continue reading
Cases of human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus have been confirmed in several countries, and the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern | Continue reading
Einstein’s theory of relativity predicts that fast-spinning objects stretch space and time around them, and we’ve watched that effect make a pair of stars wobble | Continue reading
A glass bead has been brought down to its coldest possible quantum state using a new method that may one day allow us to observe an object in two places at once | Continue reading
Modifying bacteria found in the guts of bees could help protect the insects against lethal infections affecting hives worldwide | Continue reading