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Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier ...

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Drone footage has captured killer whales breaking off stalks of kelp and rubbing the pieces on other orcas, a rare case of tool use in marine animals ...

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In Ladakh, Himalayan wolves are increasingly breeding with feral dogs, giving rise to a new animal known as khipshang that ...

Read Issue #3595 16 May 2026 of New Scientist magazine for the latest news from across the world of science, plus long reads, opinion, analysis, and more ...

Adding olivine to the ocean could remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and a pilot project in New York state found no signs of ...

A record-breaking new version of Starship, due to launch within days, could form the basis of NASA's ambitious Artemis ...

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CAR T-cell therapy has been hugely successful in treating certain types of tumours, and stiffening up cancer cells beforehand ...

People who imagine their self to reside in their head or their heart have different approaches to life. Columnist David ...