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Buried underwear shows land use is key to soil health
Soil is the foundation of our food supply. It stores water, carbon and nutrients and is home to a large share of the world's biodiversity. M
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Did ocean motion carve Enceladus's tiger stripes?
Saturn's moon Enceladus sports a thick shell of ice surrounding a liquid water ocean. As though scraped by an enormous claw, four parallel c
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Even protected Florida wetlands can't escape microplastic pollution
Microplastics are turning up almost everywhere—from oceans and rivers to soils and sediments—yet far less is known about what happens when t
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How high scores in an online brain teaser made mathematicians lie for three years
It might not yet be the phenomenon that is Wordle, but for hundreds of thousands of players, Digit Party has scratched the itch of a casual
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Congo Basin study reveals nuanced relationship between people and flooding
In the Lac Télé Community Reserve, a vast tropical peatland in Africa's Congo Basin that is home to about 20,000 people, the forces of clima
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Expert Comment: More extreme weather is coming—AI may help us to better prepare for it
As of August 2026, the world is bracing for what forecasters describe as one of the strongest El Niño events on record. The U.S. National Oc
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Tom Gauld on picking the right staff
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
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Can ‘quantum musical agents’ really make a melody better?
Feedback wonders if a bum note is being struck in a new paper exploring "quantum teleportation in multi-agent systems for interactive music”
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This week’s new questions
Is there such a thing as an olfactory illusion, and what forces make a particle of fluid start spiralling down a pipe instead of flowing smo
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Are there plants that could survive as a food source on the moon? Part 2
Fresh answers are questioning the broader applicability of the Wardian case – and note the importance of where on the moon the plants are gr
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Why don’t we sneeze when we are asleep?
Our readers don’t agree with this statement, and even broaden out their evidence base to their furry companions
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Twisteddoodles on a brand-new type of robot
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
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Why do we feel emotional about fictional characters?
Readers provide different perspectives to tackle the question of why humans so readily adopt fiction into our lives
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The quest to save the bananas we love so much makes scary reading
Without serious technical efforts, banana crops faces collapse worldwide. James Woodford enjoys a passionate plea from leading researcher Ja
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Want to know everything about time? Read Jim Al-Khalili’s new book
If you want a thorough examination of time, then the excellent – and extremely meaty – book On Time is for you, says Joshua Howgego
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Our verdict on The Dog Stars: A mixed response to this grim future
Peter Heller's post-apocalyptic novel The Dog Stars was the New Scientist Book Club's read for August. Alison Flood rounds up how members fe
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Can the Greek muses of ancient myth explain modern society?
Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier’s Mothers of Invention gives the nine Greek muses new voices – and lets them loose on creativity.
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The healthcare industry isn’t built for coming off medication
Starting a new medication is relatively easy once you have a prescription from your doctor, but stopping is much harder, because from resear
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Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape
The sights and sounds of the Jurassic era are long gone, and we will never know for sure what that ancient world looked and sounded like. Fo
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Looking into the eyes of gibbons: New noninvasive eye-tracking study features these little-studied apes
When you look at someone, you usually look at their face. It serves as one of the most important sources of social information in primates,
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Human activity is pushing lakes beyond their natural carbon limits
Lakes play an important role in capturing and storing carbon, which accumulates in their sediments. But the amounts they can absorb have var
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Researchers develop hydrogels to create a programmable niche for blood stem cells
A research team from Tel Aviv University and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), led by Ayala Lampel and Carsten Werner
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Narrow ultrasonic beam enables stable 3D levitation six times farther than before
Scientists have developed a new acoustic levitation technique using an ultrasonic beam capable of levitating and moving small objects in mid
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CanopyFit maps urban tree sites with greatest cooling potential
UBC researchers and municipal partners have developed a modeling tool to help cities adapt to rising temperatures by mapping where new trees
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