Health Our Veganuary study is just the latest self-experiment When you want to investigate the impact of giving up alcohol or meat and dairy, you sometimes need to become a lab rat. New Scientist staff are always happy to oblige News
Environment Potatoes engineered to harm a major pest but leave other insects safe The Colorado potato beetle is a major agricultural pest An ideal pesticide would kill only pests, leaving all other creatures unharmed. Now biologists have engineered potatoes to be lethal to a major pest called the Colorado potato beetle but harmless to other species, no pesticide required. Ralph Bock of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular … News
Physics Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name? Field notes from space-time | There is no law of physics dictating that dark matter and dark energy can’t be connected, and it is natural to wonder about it, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein News
Health Small wonder: See the microscopic knotted beauty of a surgical stitch Photographer Anne Weston IF YOU have ever had a small wound stitched up by a doctor , you will probably have taken this minor medical procedure for granted. Yet this image reveals the full Byzantine beauty of a single stitch when it is magnified 100-fold using an electron microscope. Anne Weston, a microscopist at the … Regulars
Health Going vegan for January? Find out how much difference it really makes Millions of people will try a vegan diet this month for Veganuary. But can short-term or part-time vegans really reap health and environmental benefits? New Scientist put it to the test Features
Earth The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020 Wondering what to read, watch and see this year? Here's our cracking cultural calendar of the most interesting non-fiction, films, games, events and sci-fi in 2020 Culture
Earth Did an asteroid impact 65 million years ago really kill the dinosaurs? 40 years ago, New Scientist was pondering whether the dinosaurs met a cataclysmic end THE story might almost have begun with "once upon a time". "About 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, a wayward Apollo-type asteroid ploughed into our planet and was responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs and many … Regulars
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