17 November 2021
For a fortnight in Glasgow, sleep-deprived negotiators and impassioned activists sought to secure action that will help people already facing the severe impacts of climate change
17 November 2021
The ups, downs, sleepless nights and shock developments that played out before a final agreement could be reached at the COP26 summit
17 November 2021
The desire to make exciting scientific news easy to understand spurred the foundation of New Scientist. That motivation is as strong today as it ever was
17 November 2021
To be effective, global action on climate change must be just. That means compensating Indigenous people, but also learning from them, writes Graham Lawton
17 November 2021
The barn owls of northern Europe are typically dark-feathered, making the pale-feathered barn owls of the UK and Ireland an anomaly - now a study suggests they arrived via an ancient land bridge connecting the area to Iberia
16 November 2021
Despite last-minute changes, the final agreement made at COP26 still amounts to an important ratcheting up of climate ambition
16 November 2021
Uranus’s two biggest moons, Titania and Oberon, may have enough radioactive heat to maintain deep liquid oceans that could be detected by future spacecraft
15 November 2021
IBM has made a 127-qubit quantum computer. This is over double the size of comparable machines made by Google and the University of Science and Technology of China
15 November 2021
An artificial intelligence can identify designer drugs that have similar effects to substances such as cocaine and heroin, but which can’t be detected by current tests
15 November 2021
There is an ongoing debate about whether a huge "super-Earth" lurks in the far reaches of our solar system – but we may actually have observed it almost 40 years ago
