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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it ...
Martin MacInnes, the author of New Scientist's latest book club pick, the Booker prize-longlisted sc...
Read an extract from In Ascension by Martin MacInn...
In this tantalising extract from Martin MacInnes’s new science fiction novel, the latest pick for th...
Does trophy hunting actually help animal conservat...
It may seem counterintuitive, but trophy hunting leads to a lot of land being protected instead of b...
First gene-edited meat will come from disease-proo...
Pigs that have been given genetically engineered immunity to porcine reproductive and respiratory sy...
LGBTQ people seen as needing more protection onlin...
A study of around 9000 US adults has found that people are more in favour of removing toxic social m...
Odysseus spacecraft is the first private mission t...
Intuitive Machines has landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the moon, making it the first private compa...
Odd quantum property may let us chill things close...
We can already cool objects with fridges and with lasers. Now there is a third cooling technique inv...
Crucial chemical for life can form in conditions f...
Pantetheine, which helps enzymes to work and is found in every organism, can be formed by simple rea...
Famous supernova left a blazing hot neutron star a...
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that a nearby supernova researchers h...
Climate benefits of planting forests might be over...
The warming avoided by planting CO2-absorbing forests could be around 15 to 30 per cent lower than p...
GPT-4 developer tool can hack websites without hum...
The developer version of OpenAI’s leading large language model can be repurposed as an AI hacking ag...
AI can tell where a mouse is by reading its brain ...
An artificial intelligence can interpret a mouse's brain activity to tell scientists where the anima...
A single atom could drive a piston in a quantum en...
In a quantum engine, a single atom can emit radiation that bounces around a reflective cavity and cr...
Early drug treatment leads to better outcomes for ...
About 80 per cent of people who received infliximab straight after diagnosis with the inflammatory b...
Relatives of men with fertility issues may be at h...
The relatives of men who produce very little or no sperm may be more likely to develop certain types...
Is the human brain really the most complex object ...
There are 86 billion neurons in your brain, roughly the same number as there are galaxies in the obs...
Ultra-dry Death Valley has a temporary lake thanks...
Death Valley may be the driest place in the US, but a large lake has now formed there because of sev...
Humpback whales have a specialised larynx for unde...
The distinctive melodies of baleen whales are produced by pushing air against a fatty cushion on one...
