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The best retro games console is the one you played...
Nostalgia for video games seems to be strongest for those played during childhood – at least for Nin...
Ice-monitoring drones set for first tests in the A...
High-speed drones will be put to the test in the extreme Arctic environment as part of a project to ...
It is time to close the autism diagnosis gender ga...
For decades, autistic women and girls have had to play "diagnostic bingo" before getting their true ...
The epic quest to redefine the second using the wo...
A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to ge...
Plant skin grafts could result in new kinds of veg...
A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of...
The best new science fiction books of April 2025
From robot rights to ageing and climate change, this month’s science fiction squares up to the big t...
Weekend workouts can be as valuable as exercising ...
Squeezing exercise into one or two days a week seems to have similar health benefits as doing the sa...
US government fired researchers running a crucial ...
A termination letter obtained by New Scientist reveals that the Trump administration has gutted the ...
How nothing could destroy the universe
The concept of nothing once sparked a 1000-year-long war, today it might explain dark energy and not...
NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon mo...
Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everyth...
The animals revealing why human culture isn't as s...
Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for ...
Do Ozempic and Wegovy really cause hair loss?
As semaglutide-based weight loss treatments, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, become more popular, new si...
Aged human urine is a pungent pesticide as well as...
Urine that has sat in the sun for a while seems to fertilise crops while warding off pests, without ...
Monkeys use crafty techniques to get junk food fro...
At the Dakshineswar temple complex in India, Hanuman langurs beg for food by grabbing visitors’ legs...
US bridges are at risk of catastrophic ship collis...
After a container ship struck and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, res...
Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't b...
Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on th...
A revolutionary new understanding of autism in gir...
By studying the brains of autistic girls, we now know the condition presents differently in them tha...
Quantum eavesdropping could work even from inside ...
An eavesdropper hiding inside a black hole could still obtain information about quantum objects on i...
