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Why the world's militaries are scrambling to creat...
The reliable internet connections provided by Starlink offer a huge advantage on the battlefield. Bu...
Parkinson's disease may reduce enjoyment of pleasa...
The "world smells different" for people with Parkinson's disease, a discovery that could help doctor...
Orcas may be to blame for some mass dolphin strand...
Two mass strandings involving hundreds of dolphins in Argentina probably happened because the pods w...
I was accused of killing over 100 million rabbits ...
New Scientist reporter James Woodford recalls his run-in with rabbits I was working a Sunday shift w...
Sharing genetic risk scores can unwittingly reveal...
Statistics that quantify a person’s predisposition to diseases such as diabetes and cancer can be re...
Startup is building the first data centre to use h...
Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology i...
How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the cou...
Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovere...
Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest...
A rapidly brightening burst of light called AT 2024wpp, or "the Whippet", is baffling astronomers. O...
Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Ma...
Ryan Gosling stars in the latest adaptation of an Andy Weir novel, another tale of a lone genius bat...
What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult ...
Figuring out what really counts as a galaxy could give us insights into dark matter and potentially ...
Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in it...
The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surp...
Human populations evolved in similar ways after we...
An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peopl...
Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerou...
US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities have caused black rain to fall on Tehran, but the black smoke f...
We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really...
Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about ...
Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but...
We’re learning that frailty can quietly arrive decades before old age, with some people in their 30s...
A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ag...
Taking a multivitamin every day might slightly slow the rate of ageing, but the extent to which this...
'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of ...
Some Samoyeds adjust the pitch of their howls depending on the music being played, showing a form of...
The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in...
A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two leg...
