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1. A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler
2. Your partner may wake you up six times a night – but does it matter?
3. The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group
4. Particle discovered at CERN solves a 20-year-old mystery
5. 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any in our solar system
6. Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together
7. The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life
8. Why global warming is accelerating and what it means for the future
9. AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's how to fix it
10. How a midlife tune-up could help prepare you for a healthy old age
11. Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning
12. What does it mean if the universe has extra dimensions?
13. Why are we so obsessed with protein? A new book looks for answers
14. A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed
15. Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it
16. Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births
17. The 3 things you need to know about passwords, from a security expert
18. We don’t know if AI-powered toys are safe, but they’re here anyway
19. Parkinson's disease may reduce enjoyment of pleasant smells
20. New Scientist recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird
21. Why are we so suspicious of do-gooders?
22. A glimpse into the rare earth riches of Greenland
23. The race to solve the biggest problem in quantum computing
24. How worried should you be about your BMI?
25. Can species evolve fast enough to survive as the planet heats up?
26. Chemistry may not be the 'killer app' for quantum computers after all
27. Why drug overdose deaths have suddenly plummeted in the US
28. We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed
29. Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?
30. Undisclosed ads on TikTok skirt ban on profiling minors
31. A miniature magnet rivals behemoths in strength for the first time
32. Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
33. King penguins are thriving in a warmer climate, but it may not last
34. Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an 'impossible' particle detector
35. Why the world's militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink
36. Start-up is building the first data centre to use human brain cells
37. Orcas may be to blame for some mass dolphin strandings
38. I was accused of killing over 100 million rabbits across Australia
39. Sharing genetic risk scores can unwittingly reveal secrets
40. Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest of its kind
41. Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab
42. What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer
43. Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming
44. Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerous is it?
45. A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ageing
46. 'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality
47. How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world
48. The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe
49. SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather
50. The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
51. Why cosmology seems to be caught in a vibe shift
52. Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse
53. Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it
54. Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence
55. The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide
56. We must close the 'shocking' knowledge gap in women's health
57. A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one
58. A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist
59. Adrian Tchaikovsky's new Children of Time novel is brilliant
60. The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe
61. NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time
62. Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth
63. Inflammation might cause Alzheimer's – here's how to reduce it
64. The best new popular science books of March 2026
65. Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
66. The secret to guessing more accurately with maths
67. New Scientist recommends real-world stealth game LANDER 23
68. Alzheimer’s may start with inflammation in the skin, lungs or gut
69. Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape
70. How worried should you be about microplastics?
71. Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of OCD for months
72. Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive
73. What to read this week: Poisonous People by Leanne ten Brinke
74. How to convey amounts of snow to Canadians: use polar bears
75. The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on their feet
76. Sea levels around the world are much higher than we thought
77. Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
78. Claude AI: Why are there so many internet outages?
79. Phantom codes could help quantum computers avoid errors
80. Rare family has had many more sons than daughters for generations
81. Your microbiome may determine your risk of a severe allergic reaction
82. Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself
83. Can Michael Pollan crack the problem of consciousness in his new book?
84. Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tonnes of CO2
85. Can magnesium supplements improve sleep, energy and concentration?
86. Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?
87. First drone passengers may be combat casualties and criminals
88. Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?
89. Ants capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into armour
90. People who eat a lot of fibre spend more time in deep sleep
91. The best new science fiction books of March 2026
92. Why the sleep industry has got us worrying about the wrong things
93. Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
94. Inside the company selling quantum entanglement
95. The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions – if we can find it
96. How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war
97. Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi
98. The Human Flatus Atlas plans to measure the explosivity of farts
99. It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day
100. NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover