New Scientist 新科学热榜 - Hot点·热榜

1 Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up? ↗

2 3 things you need to know about quantum computers, from an expert ↗

3 Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release large stores of methane ↗

4 Rebooting stem cells builds aged muscles and assists injury recovery ↗

5 Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth ↗

6 Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years ↗

7 Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar ↗

8 Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth ↗

9 Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum ↗

10 Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus ↗

11 Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories ↗

12 New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK government uses AI ↗

13 Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy? ↗

14 Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests ↗

15 PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move ↗

16 Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields? ↗

17 A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa ↗

18 The story of the first human tool: the humble container ↗

19 Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand? ↗

20 Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I've found the answer ↗

21 Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence ↗

22 Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel ↗

23 A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing ↗

24 US government releases huge batch of UFO files ↗

25 Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions ↗

26 Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash ↗

27 There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise ↗

28 Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness ↗

29 Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle ↗

30 The mathematician who doesn’t exist ↗

31 Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO ↗

32 PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages ↗

33 Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine ↗

34 The best new popular science books of May 2026 ↗

35 Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time ↗

36 Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it ↗

37 New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth ↗

38 Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos ↗

39 Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones ↗

40 David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse ↗

41 Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs ↗

42 What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson ↗

43 Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think ↗

44 Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s ↗

45 Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami ↗

46 Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read ↗

47 Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award ↗

48 Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia ↗

49 The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over ↗

50 Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk ↗

51 Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread? ↗

52 Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case ↗

53 The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it ↗

54 Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy ↗

55 Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help ↗

56 Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work? ↗

57 A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began ↗

58 Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere ↗

59 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector ↗

60 The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch ↗

61 Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease ↗

62 Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts ↗

63 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts ↗

64 NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears ↗

65 The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert ↗

66 Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars ↗

67 Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era? ↗

68 Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous ↗

69 Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park ↗

70 The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought ↗

71 An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is ↗

72 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim ↗

73 Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk ↗

74 Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years ↗

75 Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes ↗

76 The best new science fiction books of May 2026 ↗

77 The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter ↗

78 We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past ↗

79 Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles ↗

80 Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD ↗

81 Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star ↗

82 What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow ↗

83 Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan? ↗

84 Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts ↗

85 Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D ↗

86 Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought ↗

87 The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing ↗

88 Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals ↗

89 Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe ↗

90 Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why ↗

91 Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks ↗

92 Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics? ↗

93 Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record ↗

94 How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car ↗

95 We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions ↗

96 Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave ↗

97 Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness ↗

98 Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination ↗

99 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data ↗

100 Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong ↗