The failure of ecosystem services: Why putting a price tag on nature hasn’t worked
Ryan Wills for New Scientist Richard Branson, Jane Goodall and Edward Norton might seem like strange bedfellows. But in 2012,
Weakening ice shelf has caused crucial Antarctic glacier to accelerate
Giant icebergs have been breaking off the edge of Pine Island ice shelf NASA/Brooke Medley A large and fast-melting glacier
Fast-charging quantum battery built inside a quantum computer
A quantum battery has been built within a quantum computer, a first step in determining whether such batteries could play
A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system
There might be a big clump of dark matter in our galactic neighbourhood Alamy There seems to be an enormous
Why people can have Alzheimer’s-related brain damage but no symptoms
The plaques and tangles associated with Alzheimer’s disease usually cause devastating symptoms, but some people seem to be resilient to
Amazon is getting drier as deforestation shuts down atmospheric rivers
Vast areas of the Amazon rainforest have been burned for cattle ranching MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images Deforestation has reduced
Bone cancer therapy unexpectedly makes tumours less painful
An artist’s impression of nanomedicine in action ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Cancer that spreads to bones can be deadly, and
Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes
Illustration of Haikouichthys, a fish from the Cambrian period, with a second pair of eyes suggested by fossil evidence Xiangtong
First treaty to protect the high seas comes into force
A trawler in the Southern Ocean Shutterstock A treaty that will protect areas of the largely lawless high seas from
Distant ‘little red dot’ galaxies may contain baby black holes
A collection of “little red dots” spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and D. Kocevski