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