The world, the universe and us
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21 h 35 min
Top Science Stories of 2025 | The New Scientist Features Special
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Orcas and dolphins are now hunting together; Genetic root of psychiatric conditions; Black hole stars and cosmic ecology
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How exercise shrinks tumours and starves cancer; Weird molecules found on comet 3I/ATLAS; Einstein v Bohr on the nature of light
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The evolution of sperm and the enduring mystery of the scrotum; How our brain rewires itself 4 times in life; The (real) disaster scenarios of imminent climate breakdown
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The origin and evolution of music: Steve Pretty plays the conch
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New genome of ancient human; 95% of us have a dormant virus that causes disease; Formula E cars faster than F1; Bill Bryson joins the pod!
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Why the claims about Hitler’s genome are misleading
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COP30: The world's climate future hinges on this meeting
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The collapse of America’s health data system; How sleep affects your focus; Life on Mars in liquid veins?
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How mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer; Grim state of climate action; Why birds sing the dawn chorus
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Neuroscience of reality; Quest for dark matter; Folklore of geoscience (New Scientist Live Special)
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First climate tipping point triggered; Man controls another person's body by brain implant; health worries over sumo wrestlers
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Space 2075: How Humanity Will Live, Work and Make Drugs off-planet | Live Recording at the Royal Society
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How Jane Goodall changed the world; How the universe ends; How “selfish sperm” affect male fertility
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Emergency in Antarctica; How movement changes the brain; Why women live longer than men
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Skull rewrites story of human evolution; Autism and Tylenol; discovery of wind coming from black hole
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The evolutionary price we pay for longer lives; the asteroid coming VERY close to Earth; how dinosaurs shaped the ecosystem
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Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet); The Romans' impact on the British economy; Link between exercise and your microbiome
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First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; The perils of scrolling while on the toilet
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Scientists discovered a 100,000-year-old organism; Breakthrough brain implant uses AI to treat pain; How climate change leads to revolutions
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Could we end winter illness?; Cold fusion’s comeback; The delicious microbiome of chocolate
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Climate special: How to fix the climate crisis with Tim Lenton and Kate Marvel
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80 years since Hiroshima: Forgotten victims of the atomic bomb
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Ozempic and Wegovy slow down biological ageing; creation of synthetic bacterium; geology of the Russian earthquake
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AI wins first gold at maths Olympic games; How mitochondria are linked to sleep; Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too
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Scientists test engineered microbes to fight disease; Has 1.5 degrees failed?; New theory why we’ve not found aliens
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How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster; Have we broken mathematics?; Why exercise reduces cancer risk
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First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts to humans; First demonstration of interstellar navigation
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Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid
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First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen
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Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare forever; New Vera Rubin observatory goes live
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$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm
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The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth
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34:43
Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien life; Digital oak trees
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China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar system
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Ocean wonders and the new arguments against deep-sea mining; biophotons emitted from living things; drumming chimps and the origin of religion
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Is our understanding of light completely wrong? Two consciousness theories go head-to-head; decoding dolphin whistles
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Weekly: Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality
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Weekly: First brain engineering in a mammal; landmark in fossil fuel lawsuits, the legacy of Pope Francis
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Weekly: Have we really just found the strongest evidence for alien life yet?
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