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Huge set of galaxies is set to form largest cluste...
Astronomers have spotted a gargantuan protocluster – the primordial beginnings of a galaxy cluster –...
Why science relies too much on mathematics
Mathematics is at the heart of modern science but we shouldn’t forget other ways to reason, says aut...
Playing underwater sounds could help coral reefs f...
Last year, the world's oceans broke many warming records. Environment reporter James Dinneen went to...
Making wastewater less acidic could help the ocean...
Adding alkaline chemicals to the huge volumes of wastewater discharged into the oceans each year cou...
Tiny magnet could help measure gravity on the quan...
A device that measures minuscule gravitational forces could help us understand how gravity works on ...
Tiny new moons have been spotted orbiting Neptune ...
Astronomers have found a new moon around Uranus and two orbiting Neptune – the first moons discovere...
Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto dismissed early c...
Newly released emails have revealed that the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin was aware of concerns o...
Martian soil could be turned into fibres as strong...
A mimic of Martian soil can be turned into strong fibres. Such a material could be used to help buil...
A robot dog has learned to open doors with its leg...
Four-legged robots typically need an arm to open doors or pick up objects, but this mechanical canid...
Casimir Funk: The scientist who gave us the word '...
Biochemist Casimir Funk realised that certain compounds in our diet are essential for keeping us hea...
Dune Part Two review: Thrills sure, but not weird ...
Dune seems to have defeated most directors who dared try turning the epic novel into good cinema. Ho...
‘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...
