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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction b...
We asked New Scientist staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ra...
'Unluckiest star' may be trapped in deadly dance w...
A star in a distant galaxy appears to have been almost torn apart in a close shave with a supermassi...
Smartphone use can actually help teenagers boost t...
A survey of 253 US teens has found that, on average, their mood lifted after using their smartphones...
Babies group together their squeals and growls to ...
Babies seem to cluster together their squeals and growling noises, rather than making them sporadica...
Don't be fooled by El Niño's end – net zero is mor...
The El Niño climate pattern has contributed to a year of record-breaking temperatures. We must bend ...
Risk of bird flu outbreak in cows causing pandemic...
Cow udders have lots of bird-like flu virus receptors but no human-like ones, a study has found, mea...
Parkinson’s disease could be prevented by a recent...
People who have had a recent vaccine against tetanus appear to be less likely to develop Parkinson’s...
Quantum time travel: The experiment to 'send a par...
Time loops have long been the stuff of science fiction. Now, using the rules of quantum mechanics, w...
Starship launch 4: When is the next SpaceX test fl...
SpaceX is getting ready to launch its massive Starship rocket, perhaps as soon as 5 June, and we hav...
What would happen if we pulled out Mars’s iron cor...
Mars is a planet much beloved and much maligned, and in this episode of Dead Planets Society it is g...
Can Google fix its disastrous new AI search tool?
Google's AI Overviews tool can offer impressive answers to search queries, but it will also make up ...
Ancient Egyptian skull shows oldest known attempt ...
Cut marks on a 4000-year-old skull suggest ancient Egyptian doctors tried to treat a man with nasoph...
These scientific rules of connection can superchar...
Several psychological biases undermine our ability to make new friends. Understand them and you’ll k...
The behavioural science that can help us choose mo...
Sophie Attwood is working with the food industry to promote some surprising psychological tricks des...
Hackers are using AI to find software bugs - but t...
Artificial intelligence models similar to ChatGPT are able to identify errors in computer code, lett...
Can seaweed provide the minerals we need for clean...
Mining for minerals needed for wind turbines and other clean energy technologies has a high environm...
Asthma treated in mice using offshoot of CAR T-cel...
A single dose of genetically engineered immune cells reduced asthma symptoms in mice for at least a ...
Active lava flows on Venus raise the stakes for fu...
Observations made by the Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s include signs of recent lava flows, highli...
