James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died aged 97
Molecular biologist James Watson helped reveal DNA’s hidden shapeEverett Collection Historical /…
Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised
Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s…
A three-legged lion has learned to hunt in a completely unexpected way
Jacob, outfitted with a tracking collar, lost his left hind leg in…
Grafting trick could let us gene-edit a huge variety of plants
Coffee plants can be propagated by grafting a shoot onto the rootstock…
Ancient DNA may rewrite the story of Iceland’s earliest settlers
Historical accounts say Ingólfr Arnarson was the first Norse settler of Iceland,…
Advanced quantum network could be a prototype for the quantum internet
A quantum internet could offer secure communication around the globesakkmesterke / Alamy…
We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars
Artist’s impression of Population III stars as they would have appeared a…
Quantum computers reveal that the wave function is a real thing
The wave function of a quantum object may not just be a…
Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans
Illustration of a teenage girl who is the offspring of a Neanderthal…
The New Scientist Book Club’s verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings
The New Scientist Book Club stepped away from science fiction for our…
