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Category: Science
Watch first footage of Asia’s long-lost bird, the black...
The black-browed babbler had been missing for 172 years before its unexpected rediscovery last year – now we have our first footag...
Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star s...
Interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua might pass through our solar system in such high numbers that one could have acted as a seed a...
COP26: UK asks world leaders to recognise urgent need f...
Recognising the “urgency of action” needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees is on the UK COP26 presidency’s wish list for t...
Covid-19 news: Get booster to avoid Christmas restricti...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 mil...
More than half a billion years ago, tiny penis worms had learned to protect themselves by grabbing and living inside snail-like sh...
Satellites find close to 800 methane leaks in past four...
Earth observation satellites have detected leaks of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in the US, Algeria, Turkmenistan and Uzbek...
Silk modified to reflect sunlight keeps skin 12.5°C coo...
Silk has been modified through the addition of nanoparticles to reflect 95 per cent of sunlight, which means the material stays ex...
Lost in Space-Time newsletter: Will a twisted universe ...
A forgotten idea of Albert Einstein’s might be the saviour of cosmology, plus the great man’s (vain) quest to undermine quantum we...
COP26 news: Obama says world must ‘settle for imperfect...
Consensus on the text of the final COP26 agreement has been hard to come by so far, and former US president Barack Obama today enc...
Water-absorbing material inspired by plant roots could ...
Soft robots could one day be powered by a material that absorbs water to become strong and stiff, mimicking the physics of the cel...
US astronomers plan $11 billion telescope to picture an...
A massive report on priorities for the next decade of US astronomy recommends building a telescope that could one day take a pictu...
Homo naledi infant skull discovery suggests they buried...
The partial skull of a Homo naledi child from around 250,000 years ago has been found in a deep, inaccessible cave – suggesting it...