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2024 may have been the rainiest – as well as hotte...
Global average precipitation in 2024 may have broken the previous record set in 1998, as rising temp...
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban – but the figh...
Now that the US Supreme Court has decided that a law banning TikTok is constitutional, the platform ...
World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrec...
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions fo...
Blue Origin vs SpaceX: Who is winning the battle o...
Blue Origin and SpaceX both launched rockets on 16 January, but while Jeff Bezos' company saw a laun...
Rabbits may eat their own teeth to boost their cal...
The animals' teeth are constantly being worn down due to their tough diet. But rather than losing ca...
Robotic exoskeleton can train expert pianists to p...
Trained pianists who hit a plateau improved their finger speed after a half-hour training session wi...
Elusive phase change finally spotted in a quantum ...
Researchers saw a chain of atoms in a quantum simulator go from being magnetic to not magnetic at al...
Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any othe...
The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his no...
Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Cl...
In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New...
Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump i...
Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 ...
NATO tests satellite internet as backup to sabotag...
As apparent acts of sabotage cut undersea data cables around the world, NATO held its first demonstr...
Mind-controlled robotic arm lets people with paral...
By using MRI brain scans to identify regions linked to hand movements and sensations, researchers we...
Severe droughts are getting bigger, hotter, drier ...
Droughts lasting multiple years are becoming more common and extreme around the globe, expanding by ...
Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is su...
A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cret...
The evidence that suggests you don’t need alcohol ...
A reader is worried about socialising without the confidence boost she gets from alcohol. But studie...
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on fi...
After delays and false starts, Jeff Bezos's firm Blue Origin has reached orbit with its first launch...
Humanoid robot learns to waltz by mirroring people...
An AI trained on motion capture recordings can help robots smoothly imitate human actions, such as d...
What can we learn from a debunked theory of depres...
Rebutting the serotonin theory of depression exposed an important gap in our knowledge. But Joanna M...
