The colour of your car has a big impact on urban heat 21. August 2025 (21:00) Dark-coloured cars can make a measurable difference on nearby air temperature, and in cities of millions the effect can add up and noticeably increase how hot it feels(New Scientist)
How to tackle environmental issues when the world can't agree 21. August 2025 (19:26) The failure to agree a global treaty on plastic pollution highlights how the UN’s requirement for unanimity holds back environmental policy, but there are better ways to make progress(New Scientist)
There might be a 'Planet Y' hiding in the outer solar system 21. August 2025 (16:22) Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet X, that might be warping the orbits of objects beyond Neptune(New Scientist)
Our brain doesn't actually reorganise itself after an amputation 21. August 2025 (12:00) Previous research in macaques suggests that part of the brain reorganises itself when a limb is removed, but now a study in people has turned that idea on its head(New Scientist)
Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billion years old 20. August 2025 (21:00) A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which indicates the solar system may be more habitable than we thought(New Scientist)
Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case 20. August 2025 (20:00) Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but wants more evidence from Madeleine Beekman's The Origin of Language(New Scientist)
