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(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Driverless cars could be tricked into crashing49
EU's search-and-rescue drones19
Letters15
Male fertility could be restored with frozen testicular tissue implants13
The secretive world of online streaming11
Warming could shift jet stream with danger for Europe9
Feel the beat6
Penis worms lived in borrowed shells long before hermit crabs6
Buzz off6
Taking it personally6
Puzzle5
Don't miss5
All the world's a stage5
A wooden circular economy5
The physics of a soap opera5
Synthetic spider silk laced with graphene can rapidly heal itself4
Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style4
Improving even tiny green spaces boosts urban wildlife4
Quantum hook-up for supercomputer4
Head-tingling videos may help people with anxiety4
To Me' Mery Christmas! From Me3
Letters3
Eyelash expression3
Particle accelerator is so small it could fit inside a pen tip3
Pre-eclampsia link to risk of early stroke3
Antibiotic resistance tracked in wild bears' tooth plaque3
Lifeless planet3
Covid-19 may raise premature birth risk3
Running out of river3
Here be sandworms3
Grow it yourself?3
Rethinking obesity3
Spring comes early3
The Einstein machine3
Snap, crackle, pop2
Strange meteorites traced to their source craters on Mars2
Know your limits2
Starship rocket reaches orbit2
Adding to the team2
Will woolly mammoths be resurrected soon?2
Should more countries vaccinate against chickenpox?2
Your gut microbes may affect how ill malaria makes you2
Unsustainable conservation2
Tiny machine parts made of self-assembled proteins2
Why using pig fat to fuel planes is hogwash2
Speedy light2
Self-cooling quantum computer made of diamonds2
Quick crossword #1172
Fun and games2
In hot water2
Trilobite stuffed itself with food2
Into year three2
Polaris Dawn crew prepare for riskiest spacewalk ever2
Fastest free-moving star in galaxy caught going 2285 km/s2
Giant black holes nurture small ones2
Sticking it out2
Irritating question2
Genetically engineered bacteria could one day heal us from inside our cells2
Quick crossword #1552
Letters2
Ice dreams2
Don't miss2
Supersized AI2
'Water become bone’2
A seismic mystery2
Keeping of livestock predates farming2
Crop-eating stink bugs could be kept at bay by wasps2
Believe it or not!2
Physics Nobel goes to trio who sliced up time with light2
Drugs seem to help repair damaged mouse lungs2
The first of many epic journeys2
Quick crossword #982
Spiders use firefly light to lure more prey into their web2
Tiny robot could stop bleeding from inside the body using heat2
A line in the sand2
Modern flu may be down to 1918 virus2
Bizarre galaxy died very young but may come back to life2
Sloths grip stronger than humans and other primates2
Crowing about it2
Feeling zesty2
Ivermectin buyers clubs2
‘Viking skin’ nailed to medieval church doors in England is actually animal hide2
End of the road?2
Time loops may be easier to achieve than we thought2
Norway hooks up to the UK2
The great disappearing trick2
Why AlphaFold is transformational2
Science: a team sport2
Feedback2
Unravelling words2
BrainTwister2
Self-driving car could be ordered to repossess itself1
Peering at peppers1
Visitor from the outer reaches1
Hurricane in Jamaica helped change mountain ecology1
Thumbs up for video call hand signals1
CERN measurement casts doubt on shock W boson result1
How to think about…1
IS MY BRAIN THE MOST COMPLEX OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE?1
Polar bears adapt to hunt without sea ice1
Black holes may inherit magnetic fields from stars1
Solar-powered ambush drones can wait for targets like land mines1
Global warming and farming may have already hit insects1
Don't miss1
‘Dark radiation’ may solve cosmic clash1
Headscratcher1
Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet1
Letters1
Red or blue pill1
The biodiversity diet1
Migraine drug eases early symptoms like dizziness1
Feedback1
Factual evolution1
Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution1
AI detects diarrhoea from toilet sounds1
Prehistoric Spanish people moved 2-tonne stone by boat1
Shackleton saga1
Earth's core is oddly squishy and we may now know why1
PLANETS AND PLANETARY SYSTEMS1
A gentle giant ready to attack1
Feedback1
Neuralink's brain implants were on our minds1
Enigmatic Planet Nine may have been seen by a space telescope in 1980s1
A tale of two halves1
Geysers may have created protocells1
How periods change with age1
Exercising can help people with long covid – at least a bit1
Lizards stress eat as helicopters pass1
Stick to the old plan1
The language puzzle1
A silver lining1
Google launches quantum quest1
Climate change is turning snow to rain1
Never-ending cities created for VR1
AI chatbots ‘think’ in English even when asked questions in other languages1
Protected areas fail to stop loss of insects and spiders1
Crucial Congo forest under threat1
Man with paralysis walks by activating brain and spine implants with his mind1
Long covid struck 1 in 8 adults who got infected1
A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from permafrost1
Creative juice1
Grinding bones into an edible paste could reduce food waste1
Is Planet Y hiding past Neptune?1
Roll with it1
Dash of tomato colouring makes better solar panels1
The rainy Hyades1
Letters1
Micro to macro1
Quick crossword #1431
Cool melt1
Cuts hit NASA1
How to think about… Metaphysics1
Strange nebula changes colour like a galactic mood lamp1
Pollution from rockets could affect weather systems1
New Scientist recommends1
Racing ahead1
The enemy within1
Look to the future1
The viral superconductor1
AI boost to cancer detection1
Evolution's urban hothouse1
Don't Miss1
Feedback1
Hard hitting1
W boson surprise throws a spanner into standard model1
Web3 is a fantasy, but it can still hurt you1
Wikipedia uses AI to track down contradictions1
Hot on the trail of ET1
Making sense of it all1
There may be an exoplanet orbiting three stars at once1
Eurasia has seen a surge in droughts1
Do anti-inflammatory diets work?1
What is killing urban trees?1
Peak performance1
What Einstein got wrong about ultra-speedy mirrors1
Does Viagra help to protect against Alzheimer's?1
Gobbling up dark matter may help stars live forever1
Holograms could help spot urinary tract infections1
Face mask lets you detect odours in VR1
Spinning rotor made from DNA1
Polar bears seem to be ageing faster as the Arctic warms1
An epigenome-editing injection1
Reaching for the stars1
Making shift work more palatable1
A glimpse of chemistry in a distant galaxy1
Mars has enough wind to power bases all year round1
Sense of direction1
Say it loud and clear1
'Demon' dreamed up by physics actually exists in our cells1
Feedback1
Pain1
Chemical reaction used in cooking may have nurtured complex life1
Plotting it out1
Lifestyle can counter genetic dementia risk1
Super-fast battery charges in minutes1
African birds of prey under threat1
Everything to say1
A modern guide to sex1
On the boil1
Symptoms of long covid can differ depending on age1
Space oddities1
How to think about… Quantum computers1
mRNA work wins medicine Nobel1
Polluted partnerships1
Have we found Earth's oldest rocks?1
Fighting quantum with quantum1
Wildlife populations are declining on a ‘devastating’ scale, says WWF1
Quick crossword #1291
Sperm whale clicks are closest thing to human language yet found1
Escape from a whale1
Still beyond our grasp?1
Tongan volcano erupts1
Wagging question1
Backwards computing1
Life and climate, a co-production1
Worlds apart1
Bolivia's blight1
Feedback1
Life, death and wormholes1
Habitats on Mars could be built from algae1
Early humans lived at high altitude as much as 2 million years ago1
Nerve pain from diabetes treated by faecal transplants1
Did tiny black holes fill the cosmos?1
Shedding light on dark energy1
Vanishing snow will cut forest carbon storage1
DNA repair captured in step-by-step detail1
Most precise measurement of a particle ever made1
Feedback1
Gene-edited pork on the menu1
Newborn black holes spew gas so hard they almost stop spinning1
Bitter ends1
Massaging muscle might boost repair1
Robofish built with human heart cells1
Robotic laser can target and kill cockroaches1
Super-thickeners made of starch could cut calorie content1
Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has been overhyped?1
Musical game could boost your memory1
Magnetic weather1
Going nuclear1
Does even a mild case of covid-19 affect your cognitive skills?1
Cold snaps1
Cancer foes1
Super tug1
A floating polar research station will uncover the secrets of Arctic winter1
JWST shows ancient galaxy may be merging with another1
Portal-like “ring wormholes” could be used as a time machine1
Don't miss1
Device can image heart as you run1
Different strokes1
Clues to purpose of Stonehenge1
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