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1. Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists
2. Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up?
3. Rebooting stem cells builds aged muscles and assists injury recovery
4. 3 things you need to know about quantum computers, from an expert
5. Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release methane 'fire ice'
6. Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar
7. Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth
8. Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years
9. Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth
10. Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum
11. Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus
12. Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories
13. New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK government uses AI
14. PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move
15. Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields?
16. Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?
17. Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests
18. A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
19. The story of the first human tool: the humble container
20. Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand?
21. Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I've found the answer
22. Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence
23. David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse
24. Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think
25. Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel
26. The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over
27. There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
28. A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
29. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
30. Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle
31. US government releases huge batch of UFO files
32. Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions
33. Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash
34. Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness
35. PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages
36. New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth
37. The mathematician who doesn’t exist
38. Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos
39. Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO
40. Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine
41. What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson
42. Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread?
43. The best new popular science books of May 2026
44. Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs
45. What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow
46. Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time
47. Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
48. Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
49. Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
50. Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
51. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
52. Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award
53. Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
54. Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
55. Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case
56. The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it
57. Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
58. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
59. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
60. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
61. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
62. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
63. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
64. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
65. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
66. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
67. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
68. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
69. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
70. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
71. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
72. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
73. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
74. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
75. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
76. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
77. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
78. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
79. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
80. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
81. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
82. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
83. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
84. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
85. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
86. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
87. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
88. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
89. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
90. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
91. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
92. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
93. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
94. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
95. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
96. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
97. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
98. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
99. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
100. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data