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1. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
2. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
3. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
4. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
5. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe
6. Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn't the best plan ever
7. People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
8. Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
9. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
10. Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
11. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
12. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
13. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
14. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China
15. Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain
16. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
17. From autism to migraines, birth order may have wide-reaching effects
18. A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
19. Modern living may be causing big changes to our oestrogen levels
20. We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
21. My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation
22. The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
23. Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon
24. We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
25. The secret project to settle controversial maths proof with a computer
26. We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together
27. The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve
28. Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways
29. I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?
30. NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success
31. Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat
32. Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction
33. Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time
34. The man who ruined mathematics
35. Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton
36. Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war
37. Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names
38. Mysterious 'compound X' clears toxic Parkinson’s proteins from brain
39. Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline
40. What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi
41. Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?
42. CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'
43. Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic
44. Stunning photographs show the dynamic patterns of the natural world
45. Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time
46. Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago
47. Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time
48. Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book
49. How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end
50. The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon
51. Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system
52. Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions?
53. The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon
54. Iodised salt has become uncool but many of us need to eat more iodine
55. Novel approach to clearing brain waste shows promise for Alzheimer's
56. Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?
57. A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries
58. Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon
59. Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'
60. We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time
61. The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health
62. How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?
63. Multipurpose anti-viral pill may treat colds, norovirus, flu and covid
64. How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper or a whole kangaroo
65. Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals
66. Bumblebees surprise scientists by showing a sense of rhythm
67. Unprecedented insight into memory champion's brain reveals his tricks
68. We may have just glimpsed the universe's first stars
69. I have been bitten by more than 200 snakes – on purpose
70. What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex
71. Historic Artemis II launch sends astronauts bound for the moon
72. Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs
73. Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?
74. The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close
75. Male octopuses have a favourite arm that they mostly use for sex
76. The best new popular science books of April 2026
77. Virus from marine animals is causing weird eye problems in people
78. Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain
79. Attacks from our immune system are a cause of long covid
80. The best new science-fiction books of April 2026
81. New fibre-optic record allows 50,000,000 movies to be streamed at once
82. The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, plants and animals
83. Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and it could get bad
84. The best kind of olive oil for brain health
85. The weird physics of plant-based milks is only just coming to light
86. Why the lack of water on Mars is so mysterious
87. How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing
88. The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs
89. The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
90. Surprising male G-spot found in most detailed study of the penis yet
91. I almost drowned in space when my helmet filled with water
92. How Anthony Leggett pushed the boundaries of quantum physics
93. We could protect Earth from dangerous asteroids using a huge magnet
94. AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
95. Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet
96. Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on
97. Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars
98. New Scientist recommends documentary Molly vs The Machines
99. Rare Andean bear captured in stunning photograph
100. First glimpse of sperm whale birth reveals teamwork to support newborn