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80 years since Hiroshima: Forgotten victims of the atomic bomb

Ozempic and Wegovy slow down biological ageing; creation of synthetic bacterium; geology of the Russian earthquake

AI wins first gold at maths Olympic games; How mitochondria are linked to sleep; Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too

Scientists test engineered microbes to fight disease; Has 1.5 degrees failed?; New theory why we’ve not found aliens

How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster; Have we broken mathematics?; Why exercise reduces cancer risk

First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts to humans; First demonstration of interstellar navigation

Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid

First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen

Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare forever; New Vera Rubin observatory goes live

$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm

The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth

Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien life; Digital oak trees

China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar system

Ocean wonders and the new arguments against deep-sea mining; biophotons emitted from living things; drumming chimps and the origin of religion

Is our understanding of light completely wrong? Two consciousness theories go head-to-head; decoding dolphin whistles

Weekly: First brain engineering in a mammal; landmark in fossil fuel lawsuits, the legacy of Pope Francis

Weekly: Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality

Weekly: Have we really just found the strongest evidence for alien life yet?

Weekly: Dire wolves (not) brought back from extinction; US science in existential crisis; how to pour the perfect coffee

Weekly: How plant skin transplants could supercharge crops; China’s pollution win spikes global temperatures; the oldest ivory tools ever found

Weekly: A remarkable view of pregnancy; how to waste less time on your smartphone; superacid diamond rain

Weekly: Life on Mars; biggest dark energy discovery in decades; the mystery of dark oxygen

Weekly: America is turning its back on science and the cosmos; photosynthesis limits; mysterious memory illusion

Weekly: Chimps, bonobos and humans have more in common than you might think

Weekly: How to finally get a good night’s sleep - with science

Weekly: Life-saving mice perform first aid; tiny lab-grown human brains; making skyscrapers and hair condition from wood

Weekly: Resurrecting frozen brains; giant asteroid heads to Earth; you really do have a ‘dessert stomach’

Weekly: Trump’s war on science; How whale song resembles human language; How to boil the perfect egg with science

Weekly: Is DeepSeek really the ChatGPT killer?; alarming scale of ocean warming; dolphin peeing contests

Weekly: The Trump impact on climate and global health; the placebo effect’s evil twin; the mystery of dark oxygen

Weekly: The truth about Iron Age women; Climate whiplash and the LA wildfires; Rebooting the world’s first chatbot

Weekly: Gene-editing to make superhumans; first bird flu death in the US; perfect pasta with physics

Weekly: All You Need To Know For Science in 2025

Weekly: The Best of New Scientist in 2024: From Volcanic Diamonds to Immortal Brains

Weekly: Most Amazing Science Stories of 2024 | Live at the Science Museum

Weekly: Does Google’s new quantum computer prove the multiverse exists?; 8 ways to keep your brain young

Weekly: Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024

Weekly: Is bird flu spreading between people? Plus 2024’s best science books

Weekly: Why chimps are still in the Stone Age and humans are in the Space Age

Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet?

Weekly: The origins of writing revealed; world’s largest (and oldest?) tree

Weekly: Microbiome special: how to boost your vital gut bacteria

Weekly: The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well

Weekly: SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction

Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back

The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war

Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations