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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Driverless cars could be tricked into crashing156
EU's search-and-rescue drones49
Letters19
Male fertility could be restored with frozen testicular tissue implants15
The secretive world of online streaming12
Warming could shift jet stream with danger for Europe11
Buzz off9
Taking it personally6
All the world's a stage6
Feel the beat6
Penis worms lived in borrowed shells long before hermit crabs6
The physics of a soap opera5
Puzzle5
A wooden circular economy5
Don't miss5
Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style5
Head-tingling videos may help people with anxiety4
Synthetic spider silk laced with graphene can rapidly heal itself4
Grow it yourself?4
Improving even tiny green spaces boosts urban wildlife4
To Me' Mery Christmas! From Me4
Quantum hook-up for supercomputer4
Bright and early4
Antibiotic resistance tracked in wild bears' tooth plaque4
Particle accelerator is so small it could fit inside a pen tip3
Running out of river3
Should more countries vaccinate against chickenpox?3
Rethinking obesity3
Here be sandworms3
Covid-19 may raise premature birth risk3
The Einstein machine3
Feedback3
Lifeless planet3
Spring comes early3
Puzzle3
Pre-eclampsia link to risk of early stroke3
Is gravity a quantum force?3
Letters3
Eyelash expression3
Unsustainable conservation2
Time loops may be easier to achieve than we thought2
Norway hooks up to the UK2
Why AlphaFold is transformational2
Why using pig fat to fuel planes is hogwash2
Your gut microbes may affect how ill malaria makes you2
Quick crossword #1172
Snap, crackle, pop2
Keeping of livestock predates farming2
Ivermectin buyers clubs2
The first of many epic journeys2
Spiders use firefly light to lure more prey into their web2
Fastest free-moving star in galaxy caught going 2285 km/s2
A line in the sand2
Know your limits2
Bizarre galaxy died very young but may come back to life2
Adding to the team2
Crowing about it2
Letters2
Absolute heat2
Tiny machine parts made of self-assembled proteins2
Self-cooling quantum computer made of diamonds2
Supersized AI2
Fun and games2
Feedback2
The great disappearing trick2
Physics Nobel goes to trio who sliced up time with light2
Science: a team sport2
Unravelling words2
BrainTwister2
Strange meteorites traced to their source craters on Mars2
Tiny robot could stop bleeding from inside the body using heat2
Starship rocket reaches orbit2
Sloths grip stronger than humans and other primates2
Will woolly mammoths be resurrected soon?2
Ice dreams2
Speedy light2
Sticking it out2
A seismic mystery2
'Water become bone’2
Crop-eating stink bugs could be kept at bay by wasps2
End of the road?2
Drugs seem to help repair damaged mouse lungs2
Trilobite stuffed itself with food2
Believe it or not!2
Genetically engineered bacteria could one day heal us from inside our cells2
In hot water2
Polaris Dawn crew prepare for riskiest spacewalk ever2
Quick crossword #982
Giant black holes nurture small ones2
Into year three2
Irritating question2
Modern flu may be down to 1918 virus2
Quick crossword #1552
Feeling zesty2
How to think about…1
Letters1
Symptoms of long covid can differ depending on age1
Feedback1
How periods change with age1
The dark energy illusion1
Early humans lived at high altitude as much as 2 million years ago1
Cancer foes1
A silver lining1
On the boil1
Evolution's urban hothouse1
Global warming and farming may have already hit insects1
Making sense of it all1
Peak performance1
Robofish built with human heart cells1
An epigenome-editing injection1
Cuts hit NASA1
Spinning rotor made from DNA1
Roll with it1
Life, death and wormholes1
mRNA work wins medicine Nobel1
A glimpse of chemistry in a distant galaxy1
Habitats on Mars could be built from algae1
There may be an exoplanet orbiting three stars at once1
Mars has enough wind to power bases all year round1
Crucial Congo forest under threat1
Protected areas fail to stop loss of insects and spiders1
Super tug1
New Scientist recommends1
Newborn black holes spew gas so hard they almost stop spinning1
Gobbling up dark matter may help stars live forever1
A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from permafrost1
Climate change is turning snow to rain1
IS MY BRAIN THE MOST COMPLEX OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE?1
Thumbs up for video call hand signals1
Dash of tomato colouring makes better solar panels1
Whale shark seen feeding on seabed1
Chemical reaction used in cooking may have nurtured complex life1
AI boost to cancer detection1
Does even a mild case of covid-19 affect your cognitive skills?1
AI chatbots ‘think’ in English even when asked questions in other languages1
Lizards stress eat as helicopters pass1
Headscratcher1
African birds of prey under threat1
Hard hitting1
Still beyond our grasp?1
Pollution from rockets could affect weather systems1
Look to the future1
Space oddities1
Going nuclear1
Fighting quantum with quantum1
The viral superconductor1
Don't Miss1
Nerve pain from diabetes treated by faecal transplants1
What Einstein got wrong about ultra-speedy mirrors1
Don't miss1
Feedback1
What is killing urban trees?1
Polar bears seem to be ageing faster as the Arctic warms1
Polluted partnerships1
Earth's core is oddly squishy and we may now know why1
Creative juice1
Life and climate, a co-production1
'Demon' dreamed up by physics actually exists in our cells1
Clues to purpose of Stonehenge1
Most precise measurement of a particle ever made1
Prehistoric Spanish people moved 2-tonne stone by boat1
Feedback1
Stick to the old plan1
The biodiversity diet1
Quick crossword #1431
Robotic laser can target and kill cockroaches1
Lampshade can cut indoor air pollution1
AI detects diarrhoea from toilet sounds1
Strange nebula changes colour like a galactic mood lamp1
Magnetic weather1
Have we found Earth's oldest rocks?1
Feedback1
Long covid struck 1 in 8 adults who got infected1
Pain1
Shedding light on dark energy1
Hot on the trail of ET1
Sperm whale clicks are closest thing to human language yet found1
Exercising can help people with long covid – at least a bit1
Bitter ends1
Lifestyle can counter genetic dementia risk1
Making shift work more palatable1
Google launches quantum quest1
How to think about… Quantum computers1
Hurricane in Jamaica helped change mountain ecology1
Jumping parasitic worms use static to hit their targets1
Portal-like “ring wormholes” could be used as a time machine1
Backwards computing1
Plotting it out1
Cool melt1
Go with the flow1
Self-driving car could be ordered to repossess itself1
Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution1
A floating polar research station will uncover the secrets of Arctic winter1
Quick crossword #1291
Tongan volcano erupts1
CERN measurement casts doubt on shock W boson result1
Did tiny black holes fill the cosmos?1
How to think about… Metaphysics1
Wagging question1
Musical game could boost your memory1
Man with paralysis walks by activating brain and spine implants with his mind1
Gene-edited pork on the menu1
‘Viking skin’ nailed to medieval church doors in England is actually animal hide1
Wikipedia uses AI to track down contradictions1
Worlds apart1
Super-thickeners made of starch could cut calorie content1
Factual evolution1
A tale of two halves1
Super-fast battery charges in minutes1
A modern guide to sex1
PLANETS AND PLANETARY SYSTEMS1
Face mask lets you detect odours in VR1
Wildlife populations are declining on a ‘devastating’ scale, says WWF1
Feedback1
Geysers may have created protocells1
Menopause research may help improve fertility treatment1
W boson surprise throws a spanner into standard model1
Neuralink's brain implants were on our minds1
The language puzzle1
Visitor from the outer reaches1
Say it loud and clear1
The rainy Hyades1
Never-ending cities created for VR1
Black holes may inherit magnetic fields from stars1
Does Viagra help to protect against Alzheimer's?1
Don't miss1
JWST shows ancient galaxy may be merging with another1
Device can image heart as you run1
‘Dark radiation’ may solve cosmic clash1
Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has been overhyped?1
Web3 is a fantasy, but it can still hurt you1
Different strokes1
Letters1
Escape from a whale1
Sense of direction1
Feedback1
Bolivia's blight1
1.5°C climate goal is slipping away1
Grinding bones into an edible paste could reduce food waste1
Red or blue pill1
Eurasia has seen a surge in droughts1
Polar bears adapt to hunt without sea ice1
Height of change1
Letters1
The enemy within1
Migraine drug eases early symptoms like dizziness1
Don't miss1
Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet1
Racing ahead1
A gentle giant ready to attack1
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