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Category: Science
Covid-19 news: UK panel advises booster vaccine for 40 ...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Enigmatic Planet Nine may have been seen by telescope i...
There is an ongoing debate about whether a huge "super-Earth" lurks in the far reaches of our solar system – but we may actually h...
IBM creates largest ever superconducting quantum comput...
IBM claims it has created a 127-qubit quantum computer. This is over double the size of comparable machines made by Google and the...
AI can quickly identify structure of drugs designed for...
An artificial intelligence can identify designer drugs that have similar effects to substances such as cocaine and heroin, but whi...
Our AI is exposing climate misinformation throughout CO...
Misinformation about climate change is polluting social media. That's why we've built an AI to try to expose and stop it, says Bil...
‘Ghosting’ in casual relationships linked to some perso...
Ceasing contact with a partner abruptly is considered more acceptable by people with the personality traits of Machiavellianism, n...
The People’s Summit: An alternative to COP26 led by act...
In Glasgow, much attention has been paid to the COP26 climate summit but an alternative meeting called the People’s Summit brings ...
Using tools helps you understand language and vice vers...
Language and tool use seem to be governed by the same brain region, suggests a study involving an fMRI scanner
Deep-sea rockfish that live to be 200 hint at genes for...
Longevity research often focuses on short-lived lab animals like mice – but a study of long-lived rockfish might offer new genetic...
New COP26 draft text adds caveats to fossil fuel subsid...
Nearly 200 countries are on the verge of agreeing to submit more ambitious 2030 emissions plans next year to put world on track fo...
Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by g...
An analysis of 77 tropical bird species in the Amazon shows that all of them have shrunk and a third developed longer wings over t...
COP26 news: Real progress made but more emissions cuts ...
Before COP26, the world was on course for 2.7°C of warming – now it’s at 2.4°C, which is a significant improvement. Future summits...