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How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habita...
Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implicati...
Gene therapy for Huntington’s disease showed great...
An experimental gene therapy seems to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease by about 75 per c...
Europa's thick ice may hinder the search for life ...
The liquid ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa appears to be completely sealed off from the planet’s surf...
New Scientist changed the UK's freedom of informat...
By requesting copies of the then-UK technology secretary's ChatGPT logs, New Scientist set a precede...
The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien l...
From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterres...
You can upgrade your immune system, but not in the...
From vitamin C to your microbiome and mindset, the latest science of immunity is often counterintuit...
Hopes of finding aliens were raised in 2025 – but ...
Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they di...
Black hole stars really do exist in the early univ...
Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind o...
What I’ll be doing to help detox my brain in the n...
We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson...
Putting data centres in space isn't going to happe...
From massive solar panels to the difficulty of staying cool - not to mention high-energy radiation -...
The US beat back bird flu in 2025 – but the battle...
After starting the year with its first known bird flu death, the US expanded its efforts to contain ...
Quantum computers turned out to be more useful tha...
Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are close...
2025 was the year of online safety laws – but do t...
New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting chil...
High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodig...
It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns o...
Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall had intest...
Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of severa...
Two asteroids crashed around a nearby star, solvin...
A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and i...
Closure of US institute will do immense harm to cl...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling ...
Sitting by a window may improve blood sugar levels...
Our cells follow 24-hour circadian rhythms that regulate our blood sugar levels and are heavily infl...
