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Starship: When will SpaceX's next 'chopstick' test...
SpaceX claims the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket will happen “within days”, but the Federa...
Elon Musk's Tesla Cybercab is a hollow promise of ...
Autonomous taxis are already operating on US streets, while Elon Musk has spent years promising a se...
Millions of websites could be impacted by UK deal ...
The UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the ex...
Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lak...
In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the N...
Tiniest 'ruler' ever measures distances as small a...
A new technique uses glowing molecules, laser light and microscopes to measure distances as minuscul...
There could be 30,000 species of earthworms wriggl...
Nearly 6000 species and subspecies of earthworms have been identified by scientists – but the true n...
Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of...
The ion tail of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak across the northern hemi...
Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-o...
Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed...
Do the 2024 Nobel prizes show that AI is the futur...
Two of the three science Nobel prizes in 2024 have been won by people working in AI, but does this m...
How hurricanes like Milton spawn tornadoes
Hurricanes often produce tornadoes that add to the destructive power of the storm – and climate chan...
Weight-loss drugs lower impulse to eat – and perha...
Popular weight-loss medications including Ozempic and Wegovy contain a drug that seems to decrease c...
The relentless push for productivity misconstrues ...
The latest neuroscience shows that, contrary to a lot of productivity advice, the drive to make the ...
Nobel prizes are still failing to celebrate the di...
The Nobel committees seem to have an unfortunate habit of overlooking women and Black people when it...
Your brain has individual neurons that respond to ...
The discovery that certain smells can be linked to specific neurons is helping us understand how the...
Once we pass 1.5°C of global warming, there is no ...
We might not be able to cool the world down again after overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit – and e...
Take control of your brain's master switch to opti...
The discovery that a small blue blob of neurons, the locus coeruleus, controls your mode of thinking...
This test could reveal whether gravity is subject ...
If gravity is a truly quantum entity, something as simple as measuring the strength of an object’s g...
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for mastering str...
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for ...
