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Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (m...
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "...
Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K....
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic novel The Dispossessed....
Go-to therapy for chronic sinus condition doesn't ...
Surgery, not antibiotics, might be the best way to treat chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition that le...
Will Australia's social media ban really keep teen...
Social media platforms will soon have to exclude children under 16 in Australia, but there are doubt...
Starship brings the heat in fiery Flight 10 launch...
SpaceX's Starship nailed its 10th-ever test flight on Aug. 26. Footage from the launch pad that day ...
'I will destroy your Vault': Exclusive 'Foundation...
This sneak peek at 'Skin in the Game' is a battle of wits between galactic heavyweights.
Glacial lake flood hits Juneau, Alaska, reflecting...
The glacial flood risks that Juneau is now experiencing each summer are becoming a growing problem i...
'We need to broaden our search, and now we can.' S...
Scientists have retreated to deep beneath the French Alps to broaden the hunt for dark matter partic...
Don't miss the stars of the 'Summer Triangle' twin...
Altair, Vega and Deneb can be seen shining with the Milky Way throughout August.
Perseverance Mars rover stumbles upon wind-carved ...
NASA's Perseverance rover captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations know...
Urine tests detect high-risk HPV as effectively as...
Several countries now offer at-home vaginal swabs to detect HPV status in place of traditional cervi...
The foundations of eczema may start to be laid dow...
Eczema can be very distressing for children – and now it seems that its roots may at least partly li...
Ripples from the Big Bang could transform our unde...
It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ripples from the Big Bang, but t...
Meet Surya, the 1st-of-its-kind AI model NASA and ...
A new NASA-IBM algorithm called Surya could be a major leap in space weather forecasting.
Why do we photograph the Milky Way in summer?
The Milky Way is a spectacular sight in the summer skies but why does it look so much more brilliant...
10 of the best stargazing locations in North Ameri...
Here's where to find very dark skies in the U.S. and Canada.
NASA debuts new Orion mission control room for Art...
NASA has opened a new Orion Mission Evaluation Room at the Johnson Space Center to analyze in-flight...
Where no gourd has gone before | Space photo of th...
The USS Enterprise, a 'Star Trek' spaceship, is created from pumpkins as part of a German contest.
A dead 'sun' forms building blocks of exoplanets i...
The Butterfly Nebula, which is a planetary nebula resulting from the death of a sun-like star, has b...
The Peacock TV Young Adult Discount is one of the ...
If you're a student or between 18 and 24 years old, you can get nearly 73% off an annual subscriptio...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellite...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flew for a record 30th time early Thursday morning (Aug. 28), sending 28 St...
'A remarkable discovery': Astronomers find 1st exo...
Astronomers are amazed to have discovered a baby exoplanet gobbling up matter around an infant star ...
'If ever there's a movie where I got everything ri...
Academy Award-winning "Star Wars" legend Roger Christian shares how he recreated the vibe of the ori...
Ancient crocodile relative could have ripped dinos...
A fossil discovered in Patagonia shows a 3.5-metre-long reptile from the late Cretaceous with large,...
We're no longer at our unhappiest during middle ag...
People used to experience an "unhappiness hump" around midlife, but declining youth mental health ma...
Why are our solar system planets tilted: These war...
Although the existence of the warps is widespread, their origin is still a mystery.
What's next for SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket afte...
Starship performed very well on its 10th-ever test flight Tuesday (Aug. 27), but SpaceX will soon mo...
China is making serious progress in its goal to la...
China is going full throttle in its quest to land astronauts on the moon by 2030, notching several i...
Understanding the Denisovans means understanding o...
Categorising the Denisovans as a distinct species would allow us to more comprehensively trace our o...
Nobel prize winner and gravitational wave pioneer ...
MIT professor, Nobel prize winner, and renowned astrophysicist Rainer Weiss has passed away at the a...
SpaceX sends 28 Starlink satellites into orbit, co...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Aug. 27 and ...
Glow-in-the-dark plants to replace streetlights? F...
The brightest and most colourful glowing plants yet have been created by injecting phosphorescent ch...
Armoured dinosaur's 'crazy' spikes weren't just fo...
A 165-million-year-old ankylosaur from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco was covered in an array of ext...
Light-based AI image generator uses almost no powe...
A system that generates images by inducing random fluctuations in a laser beam could slash energy us...
Why auroras are so much brighter and more easily v...
The aurora borealis has been remarkably bright recently. Space weather physicist Tamitha Skov reveal...
How old is Jupiter? Meteorite 'raindrops' help sci...
Scientists have solved how molten "raindrops" in meteorites, called chondrules, were formed — and th...
Best Nikon lenses in 2025 — wide-angle, telephoto,...
We've rounded up the best Nikon lenses from ultra-wide to telephoto, just what you need to take your...
How scientists are using exoplanets to map out 'po...
Scientists have developed a new technique that could help them understand "polka dot" stars using th...
SpaceX's Starship rocket finally completes success...
After three consecutive and dramatic failed missions, SpaceX has successfully launched Starship to s...
Harassment at Antarctic research bases could spell...
The National Science Foundation is already implementing some recommendations after a recent survey f...
Warped spacetime with surprise 'double-zoom' revea...
A happy coincidence and a theory first put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago helped scie...
Moon photobombs the sun in wild NOAA satellite ima...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) saw the moon pass almost directly in fron...
That mysterious 'Wow! signal' from space? Scientis...
Scientists studying the famous 'Wow! signal' think they've finally pinpointed a possible origin for ...
Starship Mars rocket met 'every major objective' o...
The Starship megarocket checked every significant box during its 10th test flight on Tuesday evening...
CPR in space could be made easier by chest compres...
Performing CPR on a space station in microgravity involves doing a handstand on a person's chest and...
SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical...
SpaceX's Starship megarocket took to the skies for the 10th time ever today (Aug. 26), on a bold tes...
Thylacine's genome provides clues about why it wen...
A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost gene...
Europe regains contact with JUICE Jupiter probe ah...
Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe lost contact with Earth for nearly a full day recently, but the problem...
Dwarf planet Ceres may have once been suitable for...
Even if life never took hold on Ceres, the discovery could help broaden the range of environments th...
Long-lost sailback shark rediscovered after more t...
The rare sailback houndshark, which has an unusually large dorsal fin, was first described by scient...
