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Best quantum 'transistor' yet could lead to more a...
Microwaves can control a single quantum bit more precisely than ever before, creating a device simil...
Trillion dollars' worth of platinum waiting to be ...
Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious metals from asteroids, b...
There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinct...
Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – a...
Dogs pollute water with pesticides even weeks afte...
When dogs given spot treatments for fleas go swimming, they release levels of pesticides dangerous t...
The global temperature may be even higher than we ...
Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface air temperature, which...
Any wall can be turned into a camera to see around...
Researchers have developed algorithms that reconstruct a hidden image from the scrambled light waves...
At this rate, carbon dioxide removal will never ma...
The carbon dioxide removal industry is struggling to grow at the pace needed to have a significant r...
Should you still learn a second language if AI can...
Artificial intelligence has removed many of the barriers to understanding a new language, but there ...
PTSD in 9/11 responders didn’t start improving for...
Most 9/11 first responders experienced improvement in PTSD symptoms about 10 years after the traumat...
How does the pill affect your brain? We're finally...
Millions of women and teenage girls use oral contraception, but we are only now getting an idea of w...
Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice math...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the...
Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministr...
In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discove...
'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a...
The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley on how she made time travel work in her bestselling nove...
First evidence of ancient birds nesting above the ...
Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million ...
Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arriva...
The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals...
Will SpaceX’s Starship rocket ever work - and what...
The failure of SpaceX’s ninth Starship launch has raised fresh concerns about the future of the rock...
Amazing images reveal new details in the sun's atm...
City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images...
Qubit breakthrough could make it easier to build q...
Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Sta...
