science

Body fat, often reviled, is actually a vital organ that contributes to your health and well-being. It is time for us to stop vilifying fat and to start exploring how we can harness its power Source link

An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than we thought Source link

AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously impossible – even if it does occasionally “cheat” to find a solution Source link

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers to do the dirty work for them through a kind of chemical subterfuge Source link

Mice with the same genetic variant that contributes towards red hair in people were slower to recover from wounds than their black-haired counterparts Source link

To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context – analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page Source link

To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context – analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page Source link

New technologies and academic funding cuts are upending the ways we learn today. Newly enrolled student Annalee Newitz finds some silver linings Source link

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, who invented the scale, tells New Scientist about his 50-year career in planetary defence Source link

Previous attempts at building a chemical computer have been too simple, too rigid or too hard to scale, but an approach based on a network of reactions can perform multiple tasks without having to be reconfigured Source link