Illustration of CAR T-cell therapy targeting multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer Nemes Laszlo/Alamy CAR T-cell therapy has the potential to revolutionise how we treat certain types of cancer by genetically engineering someone’s own immune cells to attack the disease – but it is also cumbersome and expensive. Now, scientists have managed to create…
In the game known as the streaming wars, Disney+ came out swinging, bringing with it a massive library of movies and TV shows—with new ones being added all the time. Watched everything on Netflix? Disney+ has a seemingly endless selection of Marvel movies and plenty of Star Wars and Pixar fare too. Problem is, there’s…
A tree-planting project in British Columbia, Canada James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty Images It would be nearly impossible to plant enough trees to compensate for the climate impact of burning through the world’s fossil fuel reserves. Offsetting the estimated 182 billion tonnes of carbon held in the reserves of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies would…
Southern Mexico began a major clean-up on Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Erick, which hit its Pacific coast as a powerful Category 3 storm. The tourist town of Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca state was left without electricity and phone coverage, after the storm damaged infrastructure, including two hospitals, and flooded streets. There have been…
Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared with its state eight hours after being infected with the cold sore virus (right) Esther Gonzalez Almela and Álvaro Castells García The virus that commonly causes cold sores starts reshaping our genome within an hour of infection to boost its own growth, which scientists could…
The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall contains rocks that could generate hydrogen gas pio3/Shutterstock In recent years, the discovery of small amounts of hydrogen gas underground has spurred a worldwide search for what could prove to be a significant new source of zero-carbon fuel, but so far, prospectors have largely skipped the UK. According to a briefing…
Yurok Tribal members and biologists set up fish traps with technicians on a tributary of the Klamath River in California Vivian Wan Restoring a way of life is at the heart of this photograph by Vivian Wan, part of a series that won the New Scientist Editors Award in the Earth Photo 2025 competition. It…
A Mexican redknee tarantula (Brachypelma smithi) Shutterstock/Milan Zygmunt When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my biology-professor dad brought me a present home from work: a jar of sticks. Or at least that’s what I thought it was. When some of them started moving he explained that they were stick insects. I kept…
A talent for murder: Agatha Christie is one of the world’s bestselling writers Shutterstock/Doodeez V Is for VenomKathryn Harkup (Bloomsbury Sigma) Agatha Christie’s five-decade writing career saw her poison dozens of her characters, supplying the killers in her stories with an assortment of deadly chemicals, including poisons and venoms produced by living organisms and delivered via…
Hominin cranium from Harbin, China, now identified as a Denisovan Hebei GEO University The Denisovans, a mysterious group of ancient humans originally identified purely from DNA, finally have a face. Using molecular evidence, Qiaomei Fu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing and her colleagues have confirmed what many researchers suspected: that…