The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time

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Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it

New Scientist3 min read
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Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones

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Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think

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Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s

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Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami

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Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read

New Scientist3 min read
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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

New Scientist3 min read
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Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia

New Scientist2 min read
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The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over

New Scientist10 min read
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Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk

New Scientist3 min read
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Hantavirus: Where has the deadly cruise ship outbreak come from?

New Scientist3 min read
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Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case

New Scientist3 min read
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The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it

New Scientist6 min read
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Man destined to get Alzheimer’s saved by accidental heat therapy

New Scientist4 min read
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Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet

New Scientist2 min read
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Honey has been used as medicine for centuries

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere

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