Bots on social media get a bad rap, but they can be used for good and for art, like in these three headline bots revealed at New Scientist Live | Continue reading
UK taxpayers gave around £5m to the company Dyson to support the electric car project that it announced this week will be scrapped | Continue reading
We had evidence that bees could count up to four. But it seems they can go further - if prompted with both rewards for correct answers and penalties for errors | Continue reading
A proposal to ban snacks on public transport has appeared in a UK government report. But it doesn't seem based on evidence, and the government won't discuss it | Continue reading
Warm water can leave corals looking dead – but in some cases polyps still survive deep in the coral skeleton and in time they can return the coral to life | Continue reading
We have discovered 20 new moons orbiting Saturn, all of them less than 5 kilometres across. This means Saturn has 82 moons, the most of any known planet | Continue reading
Young zebra finches that have never heard adults sing learned to produce notes of different lengths because of false memories researchers implanted in their brains | Continue reading
Brown dwarfs are too large to be planets and too small to be stars, but they have gaseous atmospheres that may have all the ingredients needed for life | Continue reading