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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spaced out150
Driverless cars could be tricked into crashing49
EU's search-and-rescue drones20
Letters19
Male fertility could be restored with frozen testicular tissue implants14
The secretive world of online streaming12
Warming could shift jet stream with danger for Europe11
Buzz off9
Penis worms lived in borrowed shells long before hermit crabs6
UK covid-19 cases fall6
Feel the beat6
Taking it personally6
Don't miss5
The physics of a soap opera5
Feedback5
All the world's a stage5
Puzzle4
Your ears can reveal if you are drunk4
Synthetic spider silk laced with graphene can rapidly heal itself4
Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style4
A wooden circular economy4
Improving even tiny green spaces boosts urban wildlife4
Head-tingling videos may help people with anxiety4
Bright and early4
Eyelash expression3
Covid-19 may raise premature birth risk3
Running out of river3
Quantum hook-up for supercomputer3
Grow it yourself?3
Building blocks for life at galaxy's edge3
Spring comes early3
Puzzle3
The Einstein machine3
To Me' Mery Christmas! From Me3
Letters3
Lifeless planet3
Particle accelerator is so small it could fit inside a pen tip3
Is gravity a quantum force?3
Here be sandworms3
Quick crossword #883
Antibiotic resistance tracked in wild bears' tooth plaque3
Rethinking obesity3
Snap, crackle, pop2
Adding to the team2
Know your limits2
The first of many epic journeys2
Science: a team sport2
Fastest free-moving star in galaxy caught going 2285 km/s2
Norway hooks up to the UK2
Into year three2
Strange meteorites traced to their source craters on Mars2
Keeping of livestock predates farming2
Starship rocket reaches orbit2
The great disappearing trick2
Will woolly mammoths be resurrected soon?2
Your gut microbes may affect how ill malaria makes you2
Crowing about it2
Early farmers in the Atacama desert were brutally violent2
Speedy light2
Unravelling words2
Modern flu may be down to 1918 virus2
Polaris Dawn crew prepare for riskiest spacewalk ever2
Ice dreams2
Snakes won't attack if they sense they have little venom2
Supersized AI2
Sticking it out2
Spiders use firefly light to lure more prey into their web2
Quick crossword #982
Pre-eclampsia link to risk of early stroke2
Believe it or not!2
Irritating question2
Unsustainable conservation2
BrainTwister2
Why using pig fat to fuel planes is hogwash2
Feedback2
Giant black holes nurture small ones2
In hot water2
Genetically engineered bacteria could one day heal us from inside our cells2
Nudging nature2
Feeling zesty2
Tiny robot could stop bleeding from inside the body using heat2
A seismic mystery2
Sloths grip stronger than humans and other primates2
End of the road?2
Quick crossword #1172
A line in the sand2
Letters2
Bizarre galaxy died very young but may come back to life2
Ivermectin buyers clubs2
Quick crossword #1552
Should more countries vaccinate against chickenpox?2
Absolute heat2
Super-thickeners made of starch could cut calorie content1
Ancient scribes had terrible posture while working1
Fighting quantum with quantum1
Jumping parasitic worms use static to hit their targets1
Feedback1
Worlds apart1
A tale of two halves1
A floating polar research station will uncover the secrets of Arctic winter1
Go with the flow1
'Water become bone’1
The dark energy illusion1
Face mask lets you detect odours in VR1
Feedback1
Tongan volcano erupts1
A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from permafrost1
Exercising can help people with long covid – at least a bit1
Stick to the old plan1
Jupiter's strange atmosphere was born in shadows1
Man with paralysis walks by activating brain and spine implants with his mind1
A gentle giant ready to attack1
Climate change is turning snow to rain1
Feedback1
Grinding bones into an edible paste could reduce food waste1
Newborn black holes spew gas so hard they almost stop spinning1
Letters1
Black holes may inherit magnetic fields from stars1
What is killing urban trees?1
‘Dark radiation’ may solve cosmic clash1
Lifestyle can counter genetic dementia risk1
Does even a mild case of covid-19 affect your cognitive skills?1
Most precise measurement of a particle ever made1
A new era for stargazing1
‘Viking skin’ nailed to medieval church doors in England is actually animal hide1
Red or blue pill1
Hot on the trail of ET1
Roll with it1
The biodiversity diet1
A blooming problem1
Time loops may be easier to achieve than we thought1
Going nuclear1
Lizards stress eat as helicopters pass1
mRNA work wins medicine Nobel1
AI detects diarrhoea from toilet sounds1
Snub-nosed alligator chomped on snails1
Why AlphaFold is transformational1
Did tiny black holes fill the cosmos?1
Holograms could help spot urinary tract infections1
A modern guide to sex1
Feedback1
Alien anxiety1
Web3 is a fantasy, but it can still hurt you1
Gene-edited pork on the menu1
JWST shows ancient galaxy may be merging with another1
Long covid struck 1 in 8 adults who got infected1
A silver lining1
Menopause research may help improve fertility treatment1
Migraine drug eases early symptoms like dizziness1
Early humans lived at high altitude as much as 2 million years ago1
Trilobite stuffed itself with food1
Headscratcher1
Evolution's urban hothouse1
Plotting it out1
Height of change1
Magnetic weather1
There's no end in sight1
Superstitious creatures1
Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet1
Super tug1
How periods change with age1
Making shift work more palatable1
Symptoms of long covid can differ depending on age1
Chemical reaction used in cooking may have nurtured complex life1
Wikipedia uses AI to track down contradictions1
African birds of prey under threat1
Cuts hit NASA1
Say it loud and clear1
Letters1
Space oddities1
Google launches quantum quest1
Creative juice1
Does Viagra help to protect against Alzheimer's?1
Letters1
AI boost to cancer detection1
Racing ahead1
Protected areas fail to stop loss of insects and spiders1
Wildlife populations are declining on a ‘devastating’ scale, says WWF1
Expansive objects1
Dash of tomato colouring makes better solar panels1
Hard hitting1
On the boil1
Visitor from the outer reaches1
W boson surprise throws a spanner into standard model1
New Scientist recommends1
Self-cooling quantum computer made of diamonds1
Feedback1
Reaching for the stars1
Strange nebula changes colour like a galactic mood lamp1
There may be an exoplanet orbiting three stars at once1
Our microbial world1
Fun and games1
What Einstein got wrong about ultra-speedy mirrors1
Crucial Congo forest under threat1
AI chatbots ‘think’ in English even when asked questions in other languages1
Super-fast battery charges in minutes1
Physics Nobel goes to trio who sliced up time with light1
Polar bears seem to be ageing faster as the Arctic warms1
Nerve pain from diabetes treated by faecal transplants1
Don't miss1
Whale shark seen feeding on seabed1
Life and climate, a co-production1
Micro marvels1
Eurasia has seen a surge in droughts1
1.5°C climate goal is slipping away1
Lighting up1
Feedback1
Clues to purpose of Stonehenge1
Mars has enough wind to power bases all year round1
Look to the future1
Different strokes1
Spinning around1
Robofish built with human heart cells1
Don't Miss1
Escape from a whale1
New Scientist recommends1
Musical game could boost your memory1
Unravelling the causes of migraine1
Portal-like “ring wormholes” could be used as a time machine1
Lampshade can cut indoor air pollution1
Self-driving car could be ordered to repossess itself1
IS MY BRAIN THE MOST COMPLEX OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE?1
Cancer foes1
Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has been overhyped?1
CERN measurement casts doubt on shock W boson result1
Sense of direction1
Global warming and farming may have already hit insects1
Earth's core is oddly squishy and we may now know why1
Don't miss1
Backwards computing1
'Demon' dreamed up by physics actually exists in our cells1
Device can image heart as you run1
An epigenome-editing injection1
Don't miss1
Tiny machine parts made of self-assembled proteins1
Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution1
Consciousness expanded1
Quick crossword #1431
Life, death and wormholes1
Cryptic crossword #1541
Crop-eating stink bugs could be kept at bay by wasps1
Making sense of it all1
Cold snaps1
The rainy Hyades1
Shedding light on dark energy1
Cryptic crossword #861
Drugs seem to help repair damaged mouse lungs1
Sperm whale clicks are closest thing to human language yet found1
Pain1
Thumbs up for video call hand signals1
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