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Liquid magnet propellers could be a safer way to p...
Sharp metal propellers can harm wildlife, so an alternative made using ferrofluid could be a better ...
Girls’ brains aged unusually rapidly during the co...
Adolescents’ brains underwent accelerated ageing during the covid-19 pandemic, and the effect was mo...
Quantum physicists just got more certain about qua...
An extension of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which places limits on how precisely you can mea...
The science of why spending time in nature is just...
Getting outside to garden or walk in a park is good for your body – it’s exercise and you can get so...
Vegans who avoid ultra-processed food risk being p...
Two relatively recent dietary trends – veganism and concerns about highly processed foods – may be i...
The development of embryos may be less shaped by g...
The chemical reactions in cells appear to shape an embryo's development, possibly overriding the eff...
AI discovers new class of antibiotics to kill drug...
Artificial intelligence helped screen millions of chemical compounds to find a class of antibiotics ...
Famous quantum experiment could be shrunk to the s...
A single, extremely cold atom could play the role of two slits in the classic double-slit experiment...
The laws of physics were broken in 2023 - by sperm...
New Scientist's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sperm break Isaac Newton...
Snowflakes fall to the ground according to a unive...
After analysing the way half a million snowflakes fell during mountain storms in Utah, researchers f...
Elon Musk spent 2023 shaping Twitter – sorry, X – ...
After taking control of Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk hired a new CEO to replace himself, all while con...
‘Clinical-grade’ AI stress detector doesn't work, ...
An AI-powered test that claimed to be “clinical grade” listens for signs of stress in people’s voice...
The best photos of the natural world in 2023
A fiery volcanic eruption, a flower preserved in amber and a ‘superbloom’ of wildflowers feature in ...
The 12 best science documentaries of 2023
From David Attenborough on dinosaurs to Michael J. Fox’s insight into living with Parkinson’s diseas...
Google wants to solve tricky physics problems with...
Quantum computers could become more useful now researchers at Google have designed an algorithm that...
Chimpanzees recognise photos of friends they haven...
Bonobos and chimps in zoos remember individuals they lived with more than 20 years ago, showing a lo...
We may have found a crater on Jupiter’s moon Io fo...
Jupiter’s moon Io is so volcanically active that any impact craters are rapidly covered up, but an a...
Stunning JWST image of Uranus shows 13 rings and n...
Rings, moons, storms and a bright polar cap can be seen in this breathtaking new image of Uranus fro...
