Robots that do their job reliably can cause humans who work alongside them to be less diligent because of a phenomenon called social loafing | Continue reading
Scientific research must be reviewed by other scientists before it is published, but some researchers say they find feedback from ChatGPT more useful | Continue reading
No penguin alive today can compare with some of the extinct giants that once roamed the planet, including Kumimanu fordycei, Petradyptes stonehousei and Palaeeudyptes klekowskii | Continue reading
Snoozing your alarm doesn't make you sleepier, moodier or less cognitively sharp during the day than getting up straight away | Continue reading
Pepper X scorches the previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, by a million Scoville heat units | Continue reading
The UN says approximately 2 million people in Gaza may soon run out of water because Israel has shut off supplies. Here's why the region is so vulnerable to water crises | Continue reading
This is the first such communication method to be established with people who are not lucid dreamers | Continue reading
Traces of algae on teeth found at archaeological sites suggest that seaweeds may have been a staple part of European diets from the Mesolithic until the Middle Ages | Continue reading
Generating electricity from the movements of molecules in a fluid could one day power devices like tiny medical implants or household appliances | Continue reading
Efforts to expand urban green spaces are undermined by street trees dying prematurely. Restoring their root microbiomes could help them live longer | Continue reading
Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of landing the coin the same way up as it started is around 51 per cent | Continue reading
Mars is generally thought of as being geologically dead, but a huge marsquake measured by NASA's InSight lander suggests otherwise | Continue reading
A glacier under covers, a fish in danger of losing its home and threatened African penguins feature in the best entries to the Royal Society of Biology Photography Competition | Continue reading
NASA's Juno spacecraft has swooped close to Jupiter's moon Io, capturing this amazing photo of the surface – and even better ones will come soon | Continue reading
Biologists identified DNA from six species of lemurs in the guts of dung beetles collected in Madagascar, demonstrating a possible way to monitor endangered wildlife | Continue reading
Only North Korea has detonated nuclear weapons during the 21st century, but recent indications suggest Russia, the US and China are preparing to resume tests | Continue reading
Growing cannabis can consume astonishingly large amounts of electricity and water, as well as damage ecosystems, but it doesn't have to be that way | Continue reading
When you look at an object, it takes just 108 to 116 milliseconds for your brain to decide if it is food | Continue reading
Join us on an exhilarating tour of the Milky Way’s most spectacular sights – from a monstrous black hole and a river of dark matter to a diamond planet, primordial stars and a cosmic hall of mirrors | Continue reading
An apparent resurgence of bedbugs has incited panic in France, but there is no scientific evidence of any increase in infestation rates this year | Continue reading
Taking a higher-than-recommended dose of vitamin D every day may reduce the risk of being hospitalised due to any cause, according to a relatively short, small study | Continue reading
People who drove by themselves before they turned 18 are better at navigating than those who first drove solo at an older age | Continue reading
Climate scientist and author Michael Mann explains why it’s not too late to prevent the worst impacts of climate change | Continue reading
A computer science student has discovered the first decipherable word in unopened scrolls from Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Continue reading
Pollutants from wildfire smoke can remain inside homes for weeks, but vacuuming, mopping and dusting result in lower levels of volatile compounds in the air | Continue reading
Numbers of invasive Chinese mitten crabs are believed to be growing in the UK, causing damage to river beds and competing with native wildlife | Continue reading
As part of its ongoing conflict with Hamas, Israel has issued a warning for 1.1 million people to leave northern Gaza. The United Nations says such a rapid mass evacuation is impossible without "devastating humanitarian consequences" | Continue reading
Ukraine is using drones equipped with artificial intelligence that can identify and attack targets without any human control, in the first battlefield use of autonomous weapons or "killer robots" | Continue reading
Five secret phrases used to create the encryption algorithms that secure everything from online banking to email have been lost to history - but now cryptographers are offering a bounty to rediscover them | Continue reading
Five secret phrases used to create the encryption algorithms that secure everything from online banking to email have been lost to history - but now cryptographers are offering a bounty to rediscover them | Continue reading
Atomic shapes are so simple that they can't be broken down any further. Mathematicians are trying to build a "periodic table" of these shapes, and they hope artificial intelligence can help | Continue reading
When Lessons in Chemistry, the story of a woman scientist frustrated by the times she lives in, finally finds its stride, it is a reminder that things can come together with patience | Continue reading
A child’s jawbone found in Ethiopia is one of the earliest fossils identified as Homo erectus, and shows ancient hominins settled in high-altitude areas | Continue reading
The tool, which charts the distribution of over a hundred different brain areas in genetic and cellular detail, may shed more light on neurological and mental health conditions | Continue reading
A prototype transistor built from molybdenum disulphide and carbon nanotubes rather than silicon could allow power-hungry AIs to run on smartwatches without rapidly draining the battery | Continue reading
Taking less blood for intensive care tests reduces the risk of transfusions, which can cause allergic reactions or infections | Continue reading
Lunar dust can be melted with a laser to make a strong, glassy material – and a similar effect could be achieved by focusing sunlight with a lens | Continue reading
Fossilised remains of extinct big cats called cave lions display evidence of butchery, showing that Neanderthals had the skills to take on top predators | Continue reading
An analysis of patent records suggests there is growing commercial interest in products derived from rhinos and other threatened wildlife | Continue reading
Over 3 billion kilograms of valuable electronics inside children’s toys are thrown away each year, and very few people are aware of this hidden e-waste | Continue reading
The asteroid Bennu was sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission, which returned to Earth last month. Researchers have already begun studying the samples, and say they contain key ingredients of life | Continue reading
Earth’s iron-rich inner core may owe some of its surprising softness to the motion of atoms, suggest experiments with iron at high temperature and pressure coupled to AI simulations | Continue reading
Turtles have existed for around 250 million years. Sy Montgomery's new book shows us that these ancient reptiles have much to teach us about the nature of time | Continue reading
The lab-grown meat industry needs to perfect and normalise the staples, like chicken and beef, before jumping to exotic alternatives like mammoth, argues Brian Kateman | Continue reading
If space-time is expanding, then why does gravity seem to pull things together? Physics can be weird, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Continue reading
Taylor Lorenz goes behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar influencer industry to trace its meteoric rise in this fascinating book | Continue reading
From a huge revolving planet Mars to cuddles with a robot, as well as talks by Alice Roberts and Hamza Yassin, find out what went down at this year's New Scientist Live | Continue reading
A new book says that single-session interventions can reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and disordered eating. David Robson explores a new approach | Continue reading