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Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier

Base of the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than we thought

21 February 2022

As meltwater trickles down through the Greenland ice sheet, it heats up – which means that some areas at the base of the ice sheet are melting 100 times faster than we thought


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Join us for a mind-blowing festival of ideas and experiences

11 February 2022

Our award-winning festival, New Scientist Live is back to stimulate, challenge and inspire with some of today’s biggest scientific discoveries and ideas.


Happier and Healthier

Discover wellbeing through a science lens

10 December 2021

What is happiness? How does science define it? And how does it affect our health. Happily, we reveal all.


New Scientist Salary Survey

Your opportunity to take part in our latest employment survey

9 December 2021

We've teamed up with specialist STEM recruitment agency SRG to provide you with the latest insights into your industry. We will benchmark salary data, employment satisfaction and discrimination in the workplace.


Advertise your charity in New Scientist for free with Signal Boost

Advertise your charity in New Scientist for free with Signal Boost

13 May 2020

If you are a charity involved in science, technology, medicine or conservation, you could get a page in the New Scientist to advertise what you do, free of charge


Watch New Scientist Live talks for free on YouTube

Watch New Scientist Live talks for free on YouTube

3 April 2020

Add some science to your lockdown living routine, as we make some incredible talks from our flagship science festival New Scientist Live available for free on YouTube over the coming weeks.


Introducing New Scientist Weekly: our brilliant new podcast

Introducing New Scientist Weekly: our brilliant new podcast

31 January 2020

New Scientist Weekly is a new podcast with the inside scoop on the three must-know stories of the week. For our first episode, available this Friday, we’re tackling the new coronavirus, nuclear fusion and the best pictures ever taken of the sun


Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

10 October 2019

We'll be live streaming several talks from New Scientist Live including British astronaut Tim Peake's question and answer session, the full announcement of SpaceBit's plans for the first British lunar rover and the real life rocket man Sam Rogers


Raffaella Villa is an environmental engineer at De Montfort University

New Scientist Live: How massive sewer-clogging fatbergs are made

7 October 2019

Rafaella Villa will explain at New Scientist Live this month how fat, oil and grease can become huge underground fatbergs


Chamkaur Ghag is an astroparticle physicist at University College London

The hunt for dark matter is heating up at New Scientist Live

4 October 2019

The hunt for dark matter is heating up. At New Scientist Live next week, astrophysicist Chamkaur Ghag will explain how to look for this elusive stuff


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