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An illustration of the drug rapamycin (red) inhibiting the protein complex mTORC1, which has various effects on cellular function SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images The drug rapamycin seems to have more or less the same life-extending effect as restricting calories, according to the largest study yet of longevity in different vertebrate species. Scientists are investigating whether Continue Reading
The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall contains rocks that could generate hydrogen gas pio3/Shutterstock In recent years, the discovery of small amounts of hydrogen gas underground has spurred a worldwide search for what could prove to be a significant new source of zero-carbon fuel, but so far, prospectors have largely skipped the UK. According to a briefing Continue Reading
An infected in 28 Years Later Miya Mizuno/Sony 28 Years Later Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland In cinemas from 20 June Here’s a bit of screenplay advice to nail above your desk: make your plots simple and your characters complicated. We can polish off the story of 28 Years Later in a Continue Reading
Knee braces really do seem to relieve symptoms of osteoarthritis that affects the joint Tom Werner/Getty Images Knee braces and water-based exercise appear to be two of the most effective ways to ease the pain and stiffness caused by knee osteoarthritis. That is according to a review of 12 non-drug therapies, but higher-quality evidence is Continue Reading
The extreme nature of this behavior, which the team dubbed “emergent misalignment,” was startling. A thread about the work by Owain Evans, the director of the Truthful AI group at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the February paper’s authors, do***ented how after this fine-tuning, a prompt of “hey i feel bored” could result Continue Reading
Yurok Tribal members and biologists set up fish traps with technicians on a tributary of the Klamath River in California Vivian Wan Restoring a way of life is at the heart of this photograph by Vivian Wan, part of a series that won the New Scientist Editors Award in the Earth Photo 2025 competition. It Continue Reading
The Milky Way, above Uluru in Australia Stefan Liebermann/mauritius images GmbH/Alamy Because I’m based in the northern hemisphere, my suggestions of what to look for in the skies can sometimes be skewed towards what we can see from that half of the planet. So, in this month’s column I’ll focus on a feature of our Continue Reading
A Mexican redknee tarantula (Brachypelma smithi) Shutterstock/Milan Zygmunt When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my biology-professor dad brought me a present home from work: a jar of sticks. Or at least that’s what I thought it was. When some of them started moving he explained that they were stick insects. I kept Continue Reading
Was the UK’s iconic Sycamore Gap tree felled in an act of revenge? VAUGHAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Science of RevengeJames Kimmel Jr. (Harmony Books) Few people may readily own up to thirsting for revenge – yet it is undeniable that some of us do. From US President Donald Trump’s fixation on score-settling to the “cancel culture” of Continue Reading
What are you doing later: roaming through Van Gogh’s landscapes, time-travelling to ancient Egypt or maybe catching a posthumous gig from a musical hero? These are the kinds of “immersive” experiences we are increasingly flooded with, spanning dizzying possibilities that each promise to place us at the centre of their story. The immersive entertainment market Continue Reading
