New Scientist

30/10/2025

Breastfeeding seems to cause specialised immune cells to flood into the breasts and stay there for years or even decades, reducing the risk of cancer

30/10/2025

A four-fingered robotic hand built from Lego Mindstorms pieces can push, pull and grip with almost as much force as a leading 3D-printed hand

30/10/2025

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

30/10/2025

The Trump administration has laid off government workers integral to major public health surveys, meaning the country will lack crucial information on births, deaths and illnesses nationwide

30/10/2025

Birds all over the world break into a dawn chorus every morning – now experiments in zebra finches suggest both a mechanistic and a functional explanation for this phenomenon

30/10/2025

Cuteness is an evolutionary strategy cats have perfected. But what is it about them that we find so adorable? We look at the strange science behind cuteness.
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30/10/2025

Is everything we know about T-rex growth wrong? 🦖

A complete tyrannosaur skeleton has just ended one of palaeontology’s longest-running debates: whether Nanotyrannus is a distinct species, or just a teenage version of Tyrannosaurus rex.

For years, palaeontologists used Nanotyrannus fossils to model T. rex growth and behaviour, but he fossil, part of the legendary “Dueling Dinosaurs” specimen unearthed in Montana has skeletal features fixed early in development and biologically incompatible with T.rex.

That tyrannosaur is now confirmed to be a fully grown Nanotyrannus lancensis, not a teenage T. rex, as many scientists once believed, flipping decades of T.rex research on it's head

Learn more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2502146-dinosaur-skeleton-settles-long-debate-over-tiny-t-rex-fossils/

30/10/2025

A new quantum computing protocol from Google may be able to augment a standard technique for understanding molecules useful for chemistry, biomedicine and materials science.

A new quantum computing protocol may be able to augment a standard technique for understanding molecules in chemistry, biomedicine and materials science

30/10/2025

An analysis of patient records suggests that mRNA covid-19 vaccines boost the immune response to cancerous tumours when given soon after people start a type of immunotherapy, extending their lives

30/10/2025

The US government's decision to stop supporting a telescope facility that would have given us unprecedented insight into the early universe is calamitous, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

30/10/2025

US President Donald Trump has announced his intention to resume nuclear weapons testing after a decades-long ban, but experts tell New Scientist there is little to be gained in doing so.

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 h...

30/10/2025

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in women who were hybrids, and this might have played a part in Neanderthals’ demise