New Scientist
Minecraft could be the key to creating adaptable A...
Researchers have a new way to assess an AI model’s intelligence: drop it into a game of Minecraft, w...
Einstein may be wrong about how mirrors travelling...
In 1905, Einstein discovered a paradox in the predicted behaviour of mirrors travelling at impossibl...
5 amazing things discovered by the eROSITA X-ray t...
The eROSITA X-ray telescope’s survey of the night sky has revealed extreme and violent processes in ...
Giant magma flow in Iceland was the fastest ever r...
As a 15-kilometre crack formed ahead of the recent eruptions, magma flowed into it at the highest ra...
Air pollution is changing the scent of flowers and...
Insects may be finding it harder to locate flowers because the scent molecules released by the flowe...
Huge deposit of natural hydrogen gas detected deep...
Companies are searching all over the world for deposits of geologic hydrogen that could be used as c...
Does Viagra ward off Alzheimer's disease? It's too...
A new study has found an intriguing link between erectile dysfunction drugs and lower Alzheimer's ri...
Spiral scratches on contact lenses can turn them i...
Inscribing a spiral in the centre of a contact lens seems to create optical vortices that interact s...
Enormous underwater mountains discovered off west ...
An ocean research vessel has just discovered four underwater mountains, the tallest almost 3 kilomet...
UK nuclear fusion reactor sets new record for ener...
In its final experiments before being shut down for good last year, the UK's JET fusion reactor smas...
UK nuclear fusion reactor sets new world record fo...
In its final experiments before being shut down for good last year, the UK's JET reactor set a world...
Exercise programme helps people with long covid, b...
An eight-week virtual exercise programme improved the quality of life of people with long covid, but...
Cyborg locusts with brain nanoparticles could act ...
Researchers wanting to make use of locusts’ keen sense of smell to sniff out certain chemicals have ...
Hottest January on record sees the world reach 1.7...
The global average temperature in January 2024 was 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels for the month, ...
Super Earths that seem to have oceans may actually...
A type of distant planet long thought to have water oceans on its surface may be too hot for liquid ...
Inhalable nanoparticles could help treat chronic l...
Nanoparticles designed to release antibiotics deep inside the lungs reduced inflammation and improve...
Orca pod disappears after being trapped in driftin...
A group of more than a dozen orcas has disappeared after being trapped in freezing Japanese waters f...
Saturn’s moon Mimas may be hiding a vast global oc...
Close measurements of Mimas’s orbit suggest there could be an ocean 30 kilometres deep beneath the s...
