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The FBI is getting new technology to see through w...
A lunchbox-sized radar system could help the FBI detect moving or stationary people by peering throu...
The wild idea that we all get nutrients from the a...
Growing evidence suggests a source of nutrition might be right under our noses. But how important ar...
Massive wildfires in Canada helped keep the world ...
Despite setting a global temperature record, 2023 might have been even hotter were it not for the co...
Parkinson's disease could be detected by listening...
The pitch and hoarseness of a person's voice often changes if they have Parkinson's disease, suggest...
Radical photon idea could rewrite standard model o...
Experiments with hydrogen atoms could soon reveal whether particles that were long thought to be for...
Go-to migraine drug actually does nothing to relie...
The drug rizatriptan is often recommended for vestibular migraines, which cause vertigo as well as h...
The bold attempt to solve the toughest mystery at ...
Finding out whether gravity – and therefore space-time itself – is quantum in nature has long been t...
How humans survived a global climate catastrophe 8...
Plummeting temperatures forced some human populations to adapt to the new conditions thousands of ye...
Alien megastructures would likely self-destruct be...
Dyson spheres, a type of huge megastructure designed to capture the energy output of a star, would b...
New way to pull uranium from water can help China'...
Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous ...
Does intermittent fasting improve gut health? Why ...
While intermittent fasting may be growing in popularity, relatively little is known about how it imp...
AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're ...
An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate ...
The everyday ways climate change is already making...
Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many small...
Was a famous supernova an alien invader from anoth...
Kepler's Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astro...
Chimps share 'building blocks of musical rhythm' w...
Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our com...
All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuff...
Our bodies emit a stream of low-energy photons, and now experiments in mice have revealed that this ...
Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off ...
With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shakier. It is a pity th...
Our favourite science fiction books of all time (t...
Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite ...
