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How will Amsterdam become a fully circular economy by 2050?

How will Amsterdam become a fully circular economy by 2050?

29 May 2025

Amsterdam aims to become a  fully circular city by 2050, with a plan to halve new raw material use by 2030. New Scientist explored projects leading this green shift.


New Scientist reporter David Robson smells flowers at Chelsea Flower Show in london

Can training your sense of smell help reverse cognitive decline?

22 May 2025

Restoring sensitivity to smell might not only reduce cognitive decline, it could even reverse it.  New Scientist reporter, David Robson looks at the science


Black hole analogue Inside Silke Weinfurtner's black hole laboratory at the University of Nottingham in the UK

Liquid physics: Inside the lab making black hole analogues on Earth

19 May 2025

Inside Silke Weinfurtner's black hole laboratory, a giant water tank is helping physicists better understand the complexity of the universe


A digital scan of the RMS Titanic

The Titanic's twin: Digitally exploring the famous shipwreck

13 May 2025

The world's most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic, has a digital twin


Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark film still

Indiana Jones vs Lara Croft: Ranking the best fictional archaeologists

8 May 2025

From Raiders of the Lost Ark to Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, films about archaeologists have long captured the public imagination – but how accurately do these cinematic adventures reflect the real science?


Tara Polar Station

How Tara Polar Station will push the limits of Arctic research

6 May 2025

Onboard the Tara Polar Station, a drifting laboratory helping scientists uncover the secrets of the Arctic Ocean's ecosystems


John Harrison marine timekeeper at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The clocks that helped define time from London's Royal Observatory

1 May 2025

From sundials to atomic clocks, London's Royal Observatory explores the timepieces that helped shape the world


Abstract prism of light references quantum properties

Five physicists discuss the achievements and future of quantum theory

17 April 2025

Five quantum theorists discuss the greatest achievements of quantum mechanics and look forward a future in which experiments might finally answer some of the theory's biggest mysteries


Magic tricks give us a window into our minds

The MAGIC Lab uses psychology to understand perception and free will

10 April 2025

At the University of Plymouth's MAGIC lab, Gustav Kuhn is using magic cognitive psychology to reveal fresh insights into how our minds work


Headshot of Gina Rippon

A new picture of autism in girls is emerging, says Gina Rippon

9 April 2025

Not only have we been failing to recognise autism in vast numbers of women and girls, says Gina Rippon, but we have now made the profound discovery that the female autistic brain works differently than the male one


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