New Scientist Magazine – October 11, 2025
Category Archives: Research
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2, 2025
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Slipping through the cracks’ – Plants attract bacteria by leaking glutamine from gaps between cells when root barriers break down.
Wildfire management at a crossroads: Mitigation and prevention or response and recovery?
A computer scientist’s technological gamble
On prosthetics, printed organs, and pig hearts
Hidden networks in the brain
Battery charging goes quantum
Upwelling that lasted millions of years
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 25, 2025
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Color of Prey’ – Selection for warning coloration and camouflage.
Buried salt is abetting Arctic thaw
Ancient layers of saline permafrost are melting below zero, deepening lakes and weakening coasts
Gardening strategies of termite farmers
Termites use microbe-infused soil to protect a fungal symbiont
Understanding avian influenza mortality
Three theories could explain why the North American H5N1 epidemic has not been more deadly
An inheritance of long life
Parental lysosomes modify epigenetic signaling to influence offspring life span
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Voyage to Nowhere’
How a Billionaire’s Plan to Reach Another Star Fell Apart
An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science
When the Rain Pours, the Mountains Move
As warming temperatures bring more extreme rain to the mountains, debris flows are on the rise
New Fossils Could Help Solve Long-standing Mystery of Bird Migration
Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 11, 2025
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Bringing In Light’ – A Swirling supercomplex captures ocean light for photosynthesis.
Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe
Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome
New picture of Mars’s interior emerges from lander data
Studies identify a solid inner core and buried remnants of giant impacts
Did Great Britain’s economy shrug off the end of Roman rule?
Pollutants in sediment core suggest mining and smelting did not tail off
Strongest black hole collision yet resonates with Einstein
“Overtone” in gravitational waves from black hole merger matches predictions of general relativity
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 4, 2025
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Rules of Thumb’ – The importance of a hand that holds in the evolution of rodents.
Was a blob of dark matter spotted in the Milky Way?
If confirmed, vast cloud could test predictions about the Galaxy’s hidden architecture
Carcinogenic metal detected in air after LA fires
The unusually tiny particles of hexavalent chromium could pose a health hazard despite low levels, researchers say
India tests new tools to predict local monsoon floods
“Hyperlocal” forecasts help Mumbai prepare for dangerous downpours
Can the global drone revolution make agriculture more sustainable?
Rapid growth in drone use is upending expectations but also inducing trade-offs
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 28, 2025
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Return of The Herd’ – Ecosystem effects of migrating bison.
Bison move through Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley at sunrise. Their movements and grazing accelerate the nitrogen cycle, increasing the annual nutrition that plants provide to herbivores. After decades of recovery, bison now add heterogeneity that sustains soil nutrient storage and plant productivity while allowing plant communities to become more diverse, highlighting the importance of restoring native grazers in large numbers and with freedom to move. See page 904.
New clues found about the assembly of life’s first proteins
Lab study shows how RNA could have helped amino acids join up—without preexisting protein machinery
Europe’s biggest quake may foretell Atlantic ‘ring of fire’
Earth’s mantle is peeling from the crust in the eastern Atlantic, a possible sign of the ocean’s eventual closure
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – SEPT/OCT 2025 PREVIEW
How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion
Two Long Island UFO hunters have been called upon by some domestic law enforcement to investigate unexplained phenomena.
Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies
President Trump has proposed building an antimissile “golden dome” around the United States. But do cinematic spectacles actually enhance national security?
Inside the hunt for the most dangerous asteroid ever
As space rock 2024 YR4 became more likely to hit Earth than anything of its size had ever been before, scientists all over the world mobilized to protect the planet.
Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Semiconductor powerhouse TSMC is under increasing pressure to expand abroad and play a security role for the island. Those two roles could be in tension.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2025
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The End of Food Allergies?’ – Life-changing therapies for peanut reactions are already here.
How Your Brain’s Nightly Cleanse Keeps It Healthy
Washing waste from the brain is an essential function of sleep—and it could help ward off dementia BY Lydia Denworth
Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured?
What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind
Charles C. Mann
How Scientists Finally Learned That Nerves Regrow
Plastics Started as a Sustainability Solution. What Went Wrong?
The Universe Is Static. No, Expanding! Wait, Slowing? Oh, Accelerating
Richard Panek
How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body
Philip Ball
NATURE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 14, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW
Globally recognized island is losing its trademark glaciers
Ice coverage is shrinking on Heard Island — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a haven of biodiversity.
Tiny motor uses heat to perform molecular magic
A nanoscopic machine transforms a molecular chain into interlocking loops.
How animal paw pads got their toughness
In creatures that walk on land, a protein called Slurp1 protects skin cells from stress.
Mystery of billions of sea-star deaths solved at last
Experiments identify a bacterium as the cause of sea-star wasting disease, which has devastated populations along the western coast of North America.
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