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Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new...

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now r...

Two-fingered dinosaur used its enormous claws to e...

A dinosaur fossil discovered in Mongolia boasts the largest ever complete claw, but the herbivorous ...

AI can forecast the weather in seconds without nee...

While earlier weather-forecasting AIs have replaced some tasks done by traditional models, new resea...

We’re finally learning how perimenopause profoundl...

The hormonal upheaval in the run-up to menopause can cause cognitive difficulties. But researchers a...

Scientists push back against US attacks on science...

At the largest gathering of physicists in the world, the American Physical Society says it won’t bac...

New Scientist recommends Weather Girl, an electrif...

Weather Girl, a play in London's Soho Theatre about a weather forecaster who finally snaps as the cl...

Tattoos are being linked to some cancers. Are they...

Having a tattoo has been linked to a higher risk of conditions like lymphoma and skin cancer, but th...

Dark energy isn't what we thought – and that may t...

Our current best theories of the universe suggest that dark energy is making it expand faster and fa...

Popular TikTok videos about ADHD are full of misinformation

Microsoft’s quantum computer hit with criticism at...

After weeks of criticism, Microsoft promised to show new data about its Majorana 1 quantum computer ...

Budgie brains have a map of vocal sounds just like...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different soun...

Quantum satellite sets globe-spanning distance rec...

A record-setting test of quantum communication used a microsatellite to connect ground stations in C...

Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far...

String theory may be our best attempt at a theory of everything, except that it can't describe an ex...

Microdosing LSD is not an effective ADHD treatment...

The first randomised controlled trial of microdosing LSD as a treatment for ADHD found the psychedel...

Euclid space telescope captures 26 million galaxie...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space t...

The world's climate is in uncharted territory, war...

A World Meteorological Organization report details a long list of grim records for everything from C...

Weird meteorite may be relic of lost planet that n...

A meteorite discovered in north-west Africa in 2023 didn’t come from a large asteroid or any of the ...

Ultra-fast chargers can refill electric car batter...

Speedy new chargers from Chinese automaker BYD take just 5 minutes to restore 400 kilometres of an e...