New Scientist

◆ Kilogram to be defined by Planck constant instead of a lump of metal

◆ There's an enormous ghost galaxy hiding at the edge of the Milky Way

◆ Microbots made from mushroom spores could clean polluted water

◆ A computer game's edible controller lets you play it with your gut

◆ Exclusive: A new test can predict IVF embryos' risk of having a low IQ

◆ Walking backwards can boost your short-term memory

◆ Catching up on sleep at weekends may aggravate period pain

◆ Web tracker can follow you for months even if you delete your cookies

◆ Environmentalists must embrace nuclear power to stem climate change

◆ Huge 30-kilometre wide meteorite crater found under Greenland glacier

◆ Prefer tea or coffee? It may be down to your genes for bitter tastes

◆ A new DNA sequencing service wants to reward you for sharing your data

◆ Life may have begun with cells made wholly from simple proteins

◆ New techniques may soon make designer babies a reality – are we ready?

◆ Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins

◆ There is no fundamental difference between male and female brains

◆ Urbanisation made flooding from Hurricane Harvey 21 times as likely

◆ The race to green domestic heating and prevent climate catastrophe

◆ Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star

◆ Mixed results for science in the US midterm elections

◆ An AI apocalypse isn't the problem – technology-driven inequality is

◆ Creams remove skin sun spots with minimal pain and may prevent cancer

◆ Modern lifestyles shaped our evolution only a few thousand years ago

◆ Google's takeover of health app appears to renege on DeepMind promises

◆ China may have developed a quantum radar that can spot stealth planes

◆ Mystery "space cow" is a weird new type of powerful space explosion

◆ Growing demand for oil will lead to shortage and high prices in 2020s

◆ An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean

◆ Earliest known animal might have inflated its body like a balloon

◆ Pluto's weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth

Scientific American

◆ Likely New House Science Chair Seeks to Move Away from "Suspicion" of Science

◆ From Pine Cones to Hobbit Holes, Mimicking Nature Can Help Humans Adapt to Wildfires

◆ Scientist–Politicians Rack Up Wins on Election Day

◆ We Need to Change the Trajectory of Mental Health Research

◆ Redefining the Kilogram

◆ What Lurks beneath the Surface?

◆ Fishermen Sue Oil Companies Over Rising Ocean Temperatures

◆ Gun Violence Is Our Lane, and It's Time to Accelerate

◆ The Benefits of Applying Mindfulness to Exercise

◆ Scientists Spot Giant Crater Hidden under Greenland's Ice

◆ Reprogrammed Stem Cells Implanted into Patient with Parkinson's Disease

◆ Trump, Zombie Deregulation and the Hawaiian Hawk

◆ Why Don't We Forget How to Ride a Bike?

◆ U.S. Immigrants Leave Country—and Microbes—Behind

◆ Cities Can Alter Hurricanes, Intensifying Their Rainfall

◆ A Solar Storm Detonated U.S. Navy Mines During the Vietnam War

◆ A Frozen Super-Earth May Orbit Barnard's Star

◆ Renewable Energy Is Surging, but Not Fast Enough to Stop Warming

◆ The Biggest Story of the Century Needs More Coverage

◆ Wind Turbines Can Act Like Apex Predators

◆ Do We Actually Experience the Flow of Time? 

◆ Science News Briefs from All over

◆ Major Campaign Aims to Unravel Exactly What Is in Wildfire Smoke

◆ Africa Doesn't Need Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

◆ How to Give Better Advice

BBC Science/Nature

◆ Kilogram gets a new definition

◆ Greenland ice sheet hides huge 'impact crater'

◆ Climate change: Worries over CO2 emissions from intensifying wildfires

◆ Exoplanet discovered around neighbouring star

◆ Climate change: Report says 'cut lamb and beef'

◆ 'Conservation successes' bring hope for mountain gorilla

◆ South Pole: Rock 'hotspot' causes ice sheet to sag

◆ Climate change: Heatwaves 'halve' male insect fertility

◆ Badger culling has 'modest' effect in cutting cattle TB

◆ Mystery monkey: history of unique Xenothrix fossil revealed

◆ Can listening to bees help save them - and us?

◆ No 'flushable' wet wipes tested so far pass water industry tests

◆ Climate change protests leads to '22 arrests' over blockade

◆ Badger cull: Vets accuse ministers of 'barefaced lies'

◆ EU moves to protect large carnivores

◆ ExoMars: Life-detecting robot to be sent to Oxia Planum

◆ Antarctic: Nasa shares close-up photos of big PIG iceberg

◆ Climate Change: Arctic 'no safe harbour' for breeding birds

◆ Keystone XL Pipeline: US judge orders halt on construction

◆ Sutherland spaceport project to move to next stage

◆ Sir David Attenborough lends voice to Netflix's Our Planet series

◆ Finland: Where second-hand comes first

◆ Stephen Hawking personal effects fetch £1.8m at auction

◆ Climate change: Bug covered 'bionic mushroom' generates clean energy

◆ 'Oldest animal painting' discovered in Borneo

◆ Northern white rhino: New hopes for IVF rescue

◆ Metop weather satellite launches into orbit

◆ Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing

◆ Oldest cave painting of an animal discovered in Borneo

◆ Morbid exhibits of UCL's Pathology Museum

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