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A new twin study suggests your genes may play a bigger role in your future success than your upbringing. Researchers found that IQ, which is largely genetically influenced, strongly predicts education, career, and income...

Scientists in Sweden have taken a major step toward a potential cure for type 1 diabetes by developing a more reliable way to create insulin-producing cells from human stem cells. These lab-grown cells not only respond s...

Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but were finally beginning to investigate how romance changes in later life

As Sir David Attenborough turns 100, here are 13 surprising facts about the beloved broadcaster and environmental advocate whose voice has shaped how generations see the natural world

An international research team, including scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), has achieved a methodological breakthrough in the study of superhydrides, a promising class of superconductors. F...

Cumberland, B.C. is reimagining its coal mining past as a clean energy opportunity. Water trapped in abandoned mine tunnels could be used in a geothermal system to heat and cool buildings efficiently and with minimal emi...

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

Eric Lusito crossed the former Soviet Union to explore vast scientific sites, some of which have been deserted for years, for his new book

An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools out of bone persisted even after the advent of metal-working

Feedback discovers that the prevailing themes of Eurovision songs may come and go, but the urge to win stays the same.

Solving society's problems with evidence is a work in progress, argues a must-read new book. The process is surprisingly new - and riddled with complexities, finds Michael Marshall

Extremely bright satellites and megaconstellations could make the night sky up to three times brighter than it is now, a new study warns. This would seriously hinder astronomical imaging devices, like the enormous camera...

Southern Alaskas winter finale delivered a spectacular atmospheric display, captured by a NASA satellite. Cold Arctic air flowing over warmer ocean waters created long bands of clouds, swirling vortex patterns, and even ...

A bold step toward returning humans to the Moon is underway with Blue Origins uncrewed MK1 Endurance lander, designed to test the technologies that future astronauts will rely on. Built in partnership with NASA, the miss...

Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pain. Many of these claims are overhyped, butevidencesuggests it can have healing powers

A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic forces, the experiment...

At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback with as little as 1.5C of global warming

Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with a resistance of zero. In so-called conventional superconductors, this occurs at low temperatures when electrons become bound into pairs, known as Cooper pai...

MIT neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising secret hidden in the adult brain: millions of silent synapses, dormant connections that lie in wait until new learning calls them into action. Once thought to exist only in...

Quantum geometry describes quantum states in systems with changing system parameters, such as an electron spinning in a magnetic field whose direction is slowly changing. The state of the electron evolves, and this chang...

When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 million cubic metres of rock fell into the fjord, causing a 5.4 magnitude seismic event

Quantum batteries can be charged remotely and could allow for far better energy density than conventional batteries used in devices today.