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Health

Are microplastics in ultra-processed food harming your mental health?

Many people are worried about the health effects of ultra-processed foods and microplastics, but could these two issues actually be linked?

Life

Why birds decorate their nests with weird and unnatural objects

Mind

We assume women are morally superior to men 鈥� and that’s a bad thing

Life

Flash floods sweep through vital sanctuary for Australian animals

Space

New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

Laser cooled neutral atoms experimental setup

Technology

Ultracold atoms have been ‘hyperentangled’ for the first time

Sloths repeatedly evolved large and small body sizes

Life

Giant ground sloths evolved three different times for the same reason

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

Can training your sense of smell help reverse cognitive decline?

Technology

Special contact lenses let you see infrared light 鈥� even in the dark

Adelie Penguins

Life

Penguin poo helps keep Antarctica cool

Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which boosts particles in the atmosphere that allow climate-cooling clouds to form

Life

Colossal scientist now admits they haven鈥檛 really made dire wolves

Earth

Giant boulder on clifftop in Tonga was carried by a 50-metre-high wave

Environment

Honeybees are getting confused by electric pollution from power lines

Health

Extra cancer screening could help pick up early cases in dense breasts