From the archives: When oil turned Alaska's coastline black
3 April 2019
The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 was one of the worst environmental disasters on record – but 30 years on, some good has come come of it
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From the archives: Pop a pill to change your personality
20 March 2019
In 1994, the controversial advent of Prozac and other mood-changing pills heralded a new era in manipulating our brains – or at least so we thought back then
From the archives: Does dowsing really help you find water?
30 January 2019
The ancient practice of water divining is still used across the world to locate water sources. Forty years ago, we wondered whether it might actually work
From the archives: When Soviet tanks crushed Czech science
2 January 2019
Fifty years ago, the liberalising hope of the Prague Spring was abruptly ended when the USSR invaded - and Czechoslovakia lost a generation of scientists
From the archives: How LaserDiscs (almost) took the world by storm
12 December 2018
In 1978, stackable 30-centimetre discs were launched to rival video cassettes. They promised vastly superior sound and picture quality – and flopped
New Scientist 60 years ago: Exploding bombs to fix the climate
28 November 2018
In 1958, when meteorologists were only just beginning to think about climate change, we ran a story on "a way in which man might drastically alter the weather"
How to solve the great global protein shortage that never was?
14 November 2018
When dietary scientists thought half the world was suffering a serious protein deficit, they came up with solution that proved rather hard to swallow.
New Scientist 50 years ago: The first test-tube babies, sort of
31 October 2018
It was still 10 years before IVF would be used successfully in humans – and that wasn’t on our radar when we reported on the first lab conceptions using mice
Drone captures humpback whales catching krill with bubbles
14 February 2018
It’s the climax of a sophisticated technique called bubble-net hunting – the trapping of krill using columns of bubbles that the whales exhale via their blowholes
