Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's the science news you missed this week.
Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a palm-sized possum with a bizarre, elongated finger.
The most comprehensive study to date has revealed what we need to eat throughout the day to sleep well that night, and that’s a lot of fibre.
Most coastal risk assessments have underestimated current sea levels, meaning tens of millions of people face losing their homes to rising waters earlier than expected
Read more: newscientist.com/article/2518082-two-marsupials-believed-extinct-for-6000-years-found-alive
Here's the science news you missed this week.
Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a palm-sized possum with a bizarre, elongated finger.
The most comprehensive study to date has revealed what we need to eat throughout the day to sleep well that night, and that’s a lot of fibre.
Most coastal risk assessments have underestimated current sea levels, meaning tens of millions of people face losing their homes to rising waters earlier than expected
Read more: newscientist.com/article/2518082-two-marsupials-believed-extinct-for-6000-years-found-alive
