Iridescent mammals are much more common than we thought 10. September 2025 (02:01) It has long been claimed that only one mammal – the golden mole – has fur that shimmers with rainbow colours, but it now turns out that at least a dozen more mammals have iridescent fur too(New Scientist)
How cosmic events may have influenced hominin evolution 09. September 2025 (20:00) Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at least in part, due to changes in Earth’s magnetic field? Did Australopithecus witness huge meteorite impacts?(New Scientist)
Is Earth’s climate in a state of 'termination shock'? 09. September 2025 (18:00) Cleaning up air pollution has saved millions of lives, but it has also given us an inadvertent taste of a nightmare climate scenario. The race is on to understand how bad it could be – and how to swerve the worst effects(New Scientist)
Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change 09. September 2025 (12:00) A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all wildly impractical, wouldn't work, or both(New Scientist)
Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chronic sinus infections? 08. September 2025 (20:00) Constant loss of smell, facial pain and a blocked nose are a reality for the 10 per cent of people living with chronic rhinosinusitis, a disease long-neglected by research. Targeting the nasal microbiome, though, is offering hope(New Scientist)
Resistance training may strengthen your gut microbiome 08. September 2025 (20:00) People who made the greatest gains in muscle power over eight weeks of resistance training also improved the balance of bacteria in their gut(New Scientist)
No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says 08. September 2025 (19:09) The arguments made by AI safety researchers Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies are superficially appealing but fatally flawed, says Jacob Aron(New Scientist)
