New Scientist - 26 Apr 2025
RETHINKING PARKINSON’S
LIFE ON AN EXOPLANET?
THE POLAR CRISIS
Why exploiting the Arctic won’t lead to riches
The race to drill the deepest-ever ice core
Wild at heart
On the cover
“Evolution can begin in systems that we wouldn’t normally consider to be alive”
Unravelling Parkinson’s
Comment
Debunking gardening myths
Rethinking Parkinson’s
Solid, liquid, gas... life?
Special report: The polar crisis
Life on an exoplanet?
Colossal close-up
Feedback
The columnist
Asteroid chase
Puzzles
Computer error
Lunar observatories
Almost the last word
Culture
Letters
Tom Gauld for New Scientist
Why exploiting the Arctic won’t lead to riches
Aperture
The race to drill the deepest-ever ice core
Online event
Back in stock
“Effective action against climate injustice will only be taken when we manage to tell better stories”
Detecting black holes
In the footsteps of von Humboldt: Ecuador
Science of magic
Weekly
Health Check
The cold, hard truth
Have your (robotic) cake and eat it
Ancient humans may have faced high levels of solar radiation
Using digital devices may help ward off cognitive decline
Intelligence tests can predict a puppy’s personality
Slices of wood could make effective water filters
Strongest evidence yet of alien life
Ancient device thought to be a type of computer may not have worked
Puppy intelligence tests can predict behaviour as adults
The race to visit near-flying asteroid
5 million
6
450
Smashing asteroids
Digital devices may help ward off cognitive decline in older people
Simple wooden discs could be effective water filters
Ancient humans faced radiation risk
Live colossal squid caught on camera for the first time
Earth’s frozen oceans in meltdown
Oldest ice cores yet hide climate clues
A floating polar research station will uncover the secrets of Arctic winter
The rush to unlock Arctic resources
30%
90 billion
The rise of Arctic shipping
Burning issue
Photo competition showcases the beauty of research
Is it a losing battle to go green, asks
Let’s hear it for introverts, some of history’s greats
Hunting the origin of many modern languages
The rich wildlife of coastal Indian city Chennai
Graham’s week
Lab lens
Lab lens
Ancestral voices
Existential Groundhog Day Gerardo Bandera
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Nature’s power to transform
Little natural landscape left, even in countryside
Maybe dementia reduction had other factors at play
Uncertainty in science is a great source of joy
Let’s hear it for introverts, some of history’s greats
A flush-free way to reuse our own waste
We give cows their own medicine cabinet
Has population really been underestimated?
An unfortunate case of nominative determinism
Net carbon by banning fishing globally
For the record
Rethinking Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s on the rise
Solid, liquid, gas... life?
Solid, liquid, gas... life?
Lunar labs
Put that on ice
Vegetative electron microscopy and other tortured phrases
When did humans or our ancestors start to sing?
Picturing the lighter side of life
Try our crossword, quick quiz and logic puzzle
A cartoonist’s take on the world
Cryptic crossword #160
BrainTwister
Quick quiz #299
Cosmic sprint
This week’s new questions
Ancient mixtape
Quick crossword #181 Answers
#69 Backward drops Solution
Quick quiz #299
A nun too far
New kind of microscope?
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