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AI agent hacks government website for first time: why this breach matters
Nature, Published online: 24 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03024-zAn OpenAI agent accessed secure data on an Australian health-care website, but the incident wasn’t reported for months.
Youthful fans of YouTube sports videos stick to the sofa
Nature, Published online: 24 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02989-1University students who are highly motivated to watch sports online do not report higher participation in exercise.
Future of Amazon rainforest may hinge on Brazil presidential election
A general election in Brazil next month is widely seen as a choice between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former …
What is an itch, and why can a simple touch calm it?
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our …
What is the fastest way to empty a full jug of water?
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our …
Why can’t we cool water as quickly as we can heat it? …
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our …
Why do we feel emotional about fictional characters? part 2
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our …
This week’s new questions
Is it faster to jog up stairs or take them two at a time? If the world we observe is just our brain’s interpretation of …
Researcher finds that cats lie around for a ridiculous amount of time
Feedback digs into important work done in New Zealand into the movements of cats, which found – to no one's great surprise – that their …
Tom Gauld: ‘Trust me, it’s safe’
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Twisteddoodles on how to make a cell look its very best
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
When will the AMOC collapse? We don’t know, but should still prepare
Uncertainty about when or even if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a vital ocean current, might collapse has been an excuse to ignore the risk, …
Do we live in a simulation? If so, it could be a …
Philosophers have pondered whether we live in a simulation for centuries. Now, Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans suggests a compelling rationale for why our …
Rare pregnancy infections may triple the risk of autism
A major Swedish study of 3.7 million people has found that rare TORCH infections passed from a pregnant woman to the fetus are linked to …
Breakthrough drug reverses skin aging and dramatically speeds healing
A topical drug that removes aging, damaged cells helped older mice heal skin wounds significantly faster. The treatment appeared to reactivate repair pathways involved in …
These tropical trees breathe at night to survive drought
Some tropical trees have evolved a clever way to survive drought by taking in carbon dioxide at night, allowing them to keep their pores closed …
Lifestyle changes may be as effective as therapy at easing depression
Advice about mindful eating, enjoying exercise and getting good-quality sleep was at least as effective for treating depression as cognitive behavioural therapy
The Arctic sea ice melt season grew longer for decades, but something …
The Arctic sea ice melt season is roughly 40 days longer than it was in 1979, yet its rapid expansion unexpectedly leveled off around 2010. …
Severe meningitis outbreak caused by bacteria that took genes from microbiome
An unprecedented meningitis outbreak that occurred in Kent, UK, in March seems to have been driven by a bacterial strain taking genes from harmless microbes
First stellar stream beyond the Milky Way could reveal dark matter
Astronomers have discovered the first globular cluster stellar stream beyond the Milky Way, opening a new way to study dark matter in distant galaxies. These …
Why Viking museums still can’t escape the warrior myth
Scandinavian museums are trying to move beyond the familiar image of Vikings as sword-wielding male warriors, highlighting women, farmers, traders, and a far more complicated …
Stonehenge’s 6-ton altar stone may have traveled from Scotland by glacier
Stonehenge’s six-ton Altar Stone may have been carried from Scotland to Dogger Bank by glaciers before prehistoric people transported it hundreds of kilometers to Salisbury …
Scientists say a critical Atlantic Ocean current is weakening and the effects …
Scientists have found strong observational evidence that a key part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has been weakening across a wide stretch of ocean …
Is AI really getting dangerously out of control?
Grim warnings of the existential risk posed by AI are all over the news, but there is very little evidence to back them up
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