New Scientist Magazine – October 11, 2025
Tag Archives: Microbiome
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec. 12, 2024
Do you drink coffee? Ask your gut
Largest study of links between consumption of the beverage and gut diversity finds coffee-loving bacteria.
Has Venus ever had an ocean? Its volcanoes hint at an answer
Chemistry of the planet’s atmosphere suggests that its interior has never held water.
Ancient stacks of dishes tell tale of society’s dissolution
Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form of the organized state.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec. 5, 2024
Humble scientists earn more trust
Study participants rated fictional scientists who admitted their own knowledge gaps as more credible.
The cells that help the immune system fight lung cancer
Neighbouring cells bolster the immune cells’ tumour-fighting abilities.
Antarctica’s first known amber whispers of a vanished rainforest
The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just offshore.
This dwarf planet might have its very own ice volcano
Relatively warm regions of the object called Makemake could also be explained by a dusty planetary ring.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 28, 2024
How to create psychedelics’ benefits without the ‘trip’
Stimulating certain brain cells in mice seems to ease anxiety without causing hallucination-like effects.
Farmers’ fires leave long-lasting smudge on African weather
A pall of smoke from burning cropland each year decreases rainfall in the annual monsoon.
How human brains got so big: our cells learned to handle the stress that comes with size
Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating neurological disorders.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 14, 2024
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Don’t blame search engines for sending users to unreliable sites
Analysis of billions of pages of results from searches using the Bing algorithm suggests that reliable sites appear in search results 19 to 45 times more often than do sites with low-quality content.
China’s thriving forests are stockpiling vast amounts of carbon
Satellite observations validate national reports on forest coverage and carbon storage.
No hearing aids needed: bats’ ears stay keen well into old age
Elderly big brown bats showed little sign of age-related degradation in the inner ear.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 7, 2024
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Naked mole rats vanquish genetic ghosts — and achieve long life
Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.
The midlife crisis is not universal
Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.
The seas are on the rise — and that surge is accelerating
Sea-surface data show that the average sea-level rise in 2023 was more than double that in 1993.
Hidden wonders: laser data reveal a dense network of ancient Maya settlements
Survey pinpoints pyramids, rural settlements and a large city in an unstudied stretch of Mexico.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 31, 2024
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Atomic smash-ups hold promise of record-breaking elements
Laboratory collisions that create the superheavy element livermorium could help scientists to discover new elements.
This plankton balloons in size to soar upwards through the water
A single-celled alga takes water into a bladder, allowing it to migrate to the sea’s sunlit surface zone.
Giant Turkish quake shifted the ground hundreds of kilometres away
The deadly earthquake led to unexpectedly large deformations some 700 kilometres from the epicentre.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 17, 2024
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Kids in the classroom flow like water vapour
Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting.
Evidence of dead people posed on dead horses found in ancient tomb
A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account.
Sewage lurks in coastal waters — often unnoticed by widely used test
Global survey finds human faecal contamination in at least one sample from all 18 cities tested.
Two comb jellies fuse their bodies and then act as one
The easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissue
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct. 10, 2024
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Hundreds of methane super-sources pinpointed in satellite data
Algorithm homes in on wetlands and industrial sites linked to high emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas.
Baby sea turtles ‘swim’ up from buried nests to the open air
Turtle hatchlings, which can begin life up to a metre deep in sand, point their heads towards the surface and make their way out onto the beach.
How a potent immune therapy loses its punch against a blood cancer
Therapeutic T cells used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia secrete proteins that impair the cells’ own ability to attack cancer.
A ‘Swiss army knife’ microscope that doesn’t break the bank
The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct. 3, 2024
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Why cannibal queens make a meal of fungus-ridden larvae
Ant larvae infected with a pathogenic fungus had better watch out for Mum.
Bronze Age clash was Europe’s oldest known interregional battle
Artefacts found in modern-day Germany suggest that northern and southern peoples clashed in the Tollense Valley millennia ago.
Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature
‘Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and more.
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