9 September 2024
A global survey of more than a thousand cities shows heat and air pollution in urban environments often have a measurable influence on rainfall, creating urban "wet islands"
6 September 2024
Bands of fast-moving wind that blow west to east around the globe play a crucial role in weather – a poleward shift in parts of these jet streams could cause dramatic changes in weather from the western US to the Mediterranean
6 September 2024
Charging new lithium-ion batteries with high currents can significantly increase their total lifespan
5 September 2024
In counties in the US affected by a bat-killing disease, there has been a 31 per cent increase in insecticide use and an 8 per cent rise in infant mortality
5 September 2024
The forecasts predicted an extreme storm season in the Atlantic, but so far there have only been three named hurricanes – so where are all the storms?
4 September 2024
Patchy garbage collection services result in more than 50 million tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste each year, and the majority of this is incinerated
3 September 2024
At CERN's CLOUD experiment, physicists are studying the link between aerosols, cosmic rays and cloud formation and using the data to inform climate models
2 September 2024
Clouds can trap heat or reflect it away from Earth, making their impact on global warming extraordinarily hard to predict. Now, new ways of studying them are lifting the fog
30 August 2024
In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in
29 August 2024
Thread that contains the part of a potato plant that is normally thrown away could be a sustainable alternative to pure cotton
