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The material can also convert the greenhouse gas into baking soda for ocean storage

Agency seeks to reduce spray drift to protect health of farmworkers and bystanders

Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed for the evolution of the photosynthetic microbes responsible for most of the oxygen now in Earth’s atmosphere

Two weeks ago, outside a coffee shop near Los Angeles, I discovered a beautiful creature, a moth. It was lying still on the pavement and I was afraid someone might trample on it, so I gently picked it up and carried it to a clump of garden plants on the side. Before that I showed it to my 2-year-old daughter who let it walk slowly over her arm. The moth was brown and huge, almost about the size of my hand. It had the feathery antennae typical of a moth and two black eyes on the ends of its wings. Читать дальше...

A lack of detail may be the best indication that someone is lying to you, according to an investigation that found this single measure was more accurate at identifying falsehoods than considering multiple factors

An imaging technique has allowed researchers to record detailed three-dimensional video of small creatures, including ants, flies and zebrafish larvae

Habitat and hunting protections have helped orca numbers rebound globally, but a group in the North Pacific Ocean is still shrinking – probably because it is isolated from other populations

Antibody-drug conjugate specialist will fill Pfizer’s cancer pipeline

The first instance of a molecule in which an oxygen atom is the sole stereocentre has been reported

The sixth synthesis report from the IPCC once again warns that without immediate and massive emissions reductions, limiting global warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change isn't due to produce its next report until 2028, which could allow political focus to move away from global warming, campaigners have warned

The 2023 vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere occurs on 20 March, but it’s not strictly true that this means day and night are the same length

How does an organism without a brain or a nervous system sense when it’s under attack? Hayley Bennett presents the plant world’s strange yet sophisticated system for responding to wounding

TL:DR – Mothing is a simple, but educational and fascinating hobby. The data it accumulates can be useful scientifically. I have lit up with a couple of different traps through the winter, but with generally disappointing results. There are not a lot of trees in our neighbourhood, which I suspect is the reason we don’t … Continue reading "British mothers in the early spring"

Journal cites “lack of confidence” in DNA results supplied by Steven Newmaster for caribou study

“It would be in the range of serious crap happening.”

Improved vaccine is not reaching enough children

To celebrate the launch of our new Essential Guide all about exercise, New Scientist editors have selected some of our most insightful premium articles about the science of physical fitness

The surprisingly stable chiral oxonium ion adds to fundamental principles in chemistry