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(The median citation count of New Scientist is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spaced out149
Popular children in year group are older49
Driverless cars could be tricked into crashing20
EU's search-and-rescue drones19
Letters14
We must avoid complacency12
Male fertility could be restored with frozen testicular tissue implants11
The secretive world of online streaming7
Feel the beat6
Penis worms lived in borrowed shells long before hermit crabs6
Buzz off6
Taking it personally6
Warming could shift jet stream with danger for Europe6
The physics of a soap opera5
All the world's a stage5
Feedback5
UK covid-19 cases fall5
Don't miss5
A wooden circular economy4
Head-tingling videos may help people with anxiety4
Your ears can reveal if you are drunk4
Puzzle4
Bright and early4
Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style4
Improving even tiny green spaces boosts urban wildlife4
Synthetic spider silk laced with graphene can rapidly heal itself3
Quantum hook-up for supercomputer3
Grow it yourself?3
Quick crossword #883
Spring comes early3
Puzzle3
Mind-altering moves3
To Me' Mery Christmas! From Me3
Letters3
Eyelash expression3
Particle accelerator is so small it could fit inside a pen tip3
Is gravity a quantum force?3
Rethinking obesity3
Tiny self-propelled submarines could help clean up waste3
Antibiotic resistance tracked in wild bears' tooth plaque3
Building blocks for life at galaxy's edge3
Here be sandworms3
Covid-19 may raise premature birth risk3
Lifeless planet3
The first of many epic journeys2
Should more countries vaccinate against chickenpox?2
Norway hooks up to the UK2
Quick crossword #1172
Modern flu may be down to 1918 virus2
Know your limits2
Sticking it out2
Set of brain changes that made us human2
Ivermectin buyers clubs2
Spiders use firefly light to lure more prey into their web2
Keeping of livestock predates farming2
Running out of river2
Letters2
Giant black holes nurture small ones2
Will woolly mammoths be resurrected soon?2
A seismic mystery2
Crowing about it2
Early farmers in the Atacama desert were brutally violent2
Pre-eclampsia link to risk of early stroke2
Starship rocket reaches orbit2
Absolute heat2
Nudging nature2
Ice dreams2
Quick crossword #982
Tiny robot could stop bleeding from inside the body using heat2
Feeling zesty2
In hot water2
Strange meteorites traced to their source craters on Mars2
Believe it or not!2
Irritating question2
Your gut microbes may affect how ill malaria makes you2
End of the road?2
BrainTwister2
Snakes won't attack if they sense they have little venom2
Feedback2
The Einstein machine2
Supersized AI2
Adding to the team2
Sloths grip stronger than humans and other primates2
Fastest free-moving star in galaxy caught going 2285 km/s2
Into year three2
Unsustainable conservation2
Polaris Dawn crew prepare for riskiest spacewalk ever2
The great disappearing trick2
A line in the sand2
Why using pig fat to fuel planes is hogwash2
Bizarre galaxy died very young but may come back to life2
Science: a team sport2
Quick crossword #1552
Speedy light2
Exercising can help people with long covid – at least a bit1
Physics Nobel goes to trio who sliced up time with light1
Large kites flown by robots could help power Mars base1
JWST shows ancient galaxy may be merging with another1
Gene-edited pork on the menu1
Face mask lets you detect odours in VR1
Snap, crackle, pop1
Height of change1
Different strokes1
Sperm whale clicks are closest thing to human language yet found1
Frequently seeing loved ones may cut risk of early death1
Red or blue pill1
A tale of two halves1
Musical discord1
Our microbial world1
Bolivia's blight1
Going nuclear1
Stick to the old plan1
Device can image heart as you run1
Whale shark seen feeding on seabed1
Portal-like “ring wormholes” could be used as a time machine1
Did tiny black holes fill the cosmos?1
Climate change is turning snow to rain1
Quick crossword #1431
Lampshade can cut indoor air pollution1
Self-driving car could be ordered to repossess itself1
How periods change with age1
Cancer foes1
Roll with it1
CERN measurement casts doubt on shock W boson result1
Super-thickeners made of starch could cut calorie content1
Global warming and farming may have already hit insects1
The rainy Hyades1
Look to the future1
'Demon' dreamed up by physics actually exists in our cells1
Headscratcher1
Wildlife populations are declining on a ‘devastating’ scale, says WWF1
Plotting it out1
Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet1
There's no end in sight1
Life, death and wormholes1
Long covid struck 1 in 8 adults who got infected1
Menopause research may help improve fertility treatment1
On the boil1
Alien anxiety1
Shedding light on dark energy1
Self-cooling quantum computer made of diamonds1
Wikipedia uses AI to track down contradictions1
Reaching for the stars1
Does Viagra help to protect against Alzheimer's?1
Drugs seem to help repair damaged mouse lungs1
Earth's core is oddly squishy and we may now know why1
Crucial Congo forest under threat1
A silver lining1
An epigenome-editing injection1
Feedback1
Don't Miss1
A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from permafrost1
New Scientist recommends1
Unravelling words1
Sense of direction1
True devastation of Amazon blaze1
Brewing milk1
Evolution's urban hothouse1
Crop-eating stink bugs could be kept at bay by wasps1
Hard hitting1
Lighting up1
Greenland ice sheet is releasing mercury1
Cryptic crossword #861
Dash of tomato colouring makes better solar panels1
Feedback1
Making shift work more palatable1
A modern guide to sex1
Jumping parasitic worms use static to hit their targets1
Grinding bones into an edible paste could reduce food waste1
A gentle giant ready to attack1
Say it loud and clear1
mRNA work wins medicine Nobel1
Letters1
Polar bears seem to be ageing faster as the Arctic warms1
Creative juice1
Mars has enough wind to power bases all year round1
Go with the flow1
Racing ahead1
Life and climate, a co-production1
Most precise measurement of a particle ever made1
Feedback1
Tongan volcano erupts1
Feedback1
The biodiversity diet1
A floating polar research station will uncover the secrets of Arctic winter1
Jupiter's strange atmosphere was born in shadows1
Hot on the trail of ET1
Spinning around1
AI detects diarrhoea from toilet sounds1
Thumbs up for video call hand signals1
Unravelling the causes of migraine1
Consciousness expanded1
Ancient scribes had terrible posture while working1
Feedback1
Why AlphaFold is transformational1
A new era for stargazing1
Cold snaps1
Newborn black holes spew gas so hard they almost stop spinning1
Web3 is a fantasy, but it can still hurt you1
What is killing urban trees?1
Pain1
‘Dark radiation’ may solve cosmic clash1
Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has been overhyped?1
Trilobite stuffed itself with food1
IS MY BRAIN THE MOST COMPLEX OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE?1
Lifestyle can counter genetic dementia risk1
Does even a mild case of covid-19 affect your cognitive skills?1
Genetically engineered bacteria could one day heal us from inside our cells1
Backwards computing1
The past 12 months were the hottest ever on record1
Smart pasta takes shape when cooked1
Escape from a whale1
Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution1
Robofish built with human heart cells1
Protected areas fail to stop loss of insects and spiders1
Letters1
Chemical reaction used in cooking may have nurtured complex life1
Making sense of it all1
Musical game could boost your memory1
Visitor from the outer reaches1
1.5°C climate goal is slipping away1
African birds of prey under threat1
What Einstein got wrong about ultra-speedy mirrors1
Tackling the global food crisis1
Strange nebula changes colour like a galactic mood lamp1
Space oddities1
AI boost to cancer detection1
Super-fast battery charges in minutes1
Black holes may inherit magnetic fields from stars1
Most-ancient bird tracks in Australia1
Nerve pain from diabetes treated by faecal transplants1
Worlds apart1
Superstitious creatures1
AI chatbots ‘think’ in English even when asked questions in other languages1
Clues to purpose of Stonehenge1
The dark energy illusion1
W boson surprise throws a spanner into standard model1
Cuts hit NASA1
Symptoms of long covid can differ depending on age1
Hurricane in Jamaica helped change mountain ecology1
Micro marvels1
There may be an exoplanet orbiting three stars at once1
Don't miss1
Feedback1
Lizards stress eat as helicopters pass1
Taste the smell1
Fun and games1
Early humans lived at high altitude as much as 2 million years ago1
Holograms could help spot urinary tract infections1
Google launches quantum quest1
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