Science
Robotic exoskeleton can train expert pianists to p...
Trained pianists who hit a plateau improved their finger speed after a half-hour training session wi...
Elusive phase change finally spotted in a quantum ...
Researchers saw a chain of atoms in a quantum simulator go from being magnetic to not magnetic at al...
Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any othe...
The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his no...
Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Cl...
In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New...
Watch SpaceX Starship explode over Atlantic Ocean ...
The upper stage of SpaceX's Starship megarocket exploded over the Atlantic Ocean during the vehicle'...
Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump i...
Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 ...
SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Fli...
SpaceX pulled off a launch-tower catch of Starship's Super Heavy booster during a test flight today ...
'Dune' director David Lynch dies at 78
An obituary for iconic filmmaker David Lynch who died Jan. 16, 2025.
NATO tests satellite internet as backup to sabotag...
As apparent acts of sabotage cut undersea data cables around the world, NATO held its first demonstr...
Centuries-old supernova guides James Webb Space Te...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar pat...
Major milestone! India becomes 4th nation to dock ...
India successfully docked its two SpaDex satellites in Earth orbit yesterday (Jan. 15), becoming jus...
Astronauts repair black hole observatory, inspect ...
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams completed a six-hour spacewalk to repair and upgrade eq...
Mind-controlled robotic arm lets people with paral...
By using MRI brain scans to identify regions linked to hand movements and sensations, researchers we...
Severe droughts are getting bigger, hotter, drier ...
Droughts lasting multiple years are becoming more common and extreme around the globe, expanding by ...
Our warming Earth: 2024 was hottest year on record...
2024 was the warmest year on record, according to NASA data. The global average temperature was 2.3 ...
Trump's space policy won't catch Europe off guard,...
The head of the European Space Agency says that ESA is ready for any changes in NASA's direction tha...
Photographer captures rare Comet G3 ATLAS from UK ...
Photographer Josh Dury captured rare Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) in a dramatic 'once-in-a-lifetime' imag...
NASA wants a 'Super-Hubble' space telescope to sea...
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a flagship NASA telescope that could answer the ultimate questio...
What is a monocular and how do they work?
For stargazers and wildlife watchers, monoculars can be an effective alternative to telescopes or bi...
Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is su...
A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cret...
James Webb Space Telescope watches planet-forming ...
The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 m...
Are James Webb Space Telescope images really that ...
How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the co...
Moon selected as historical preservation site to p...
The World Monuments Fund has added the moon to its watch list of 25 historic places that face major ...
The evidence that suggests you don’t need alcohol ...
A reader is worried about socialising without the confidence boost she gets from alcohol. But studie...
What if life on Venus is just life from Earth?
Scientists think it's possible that life cells from Earth could've been transferred to Venus, thanks...
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on fi...
After delays and false starts, Jeff Bezos's firm Blue Origin has reached orbit with its first launch...
Humanoid robot learns to waltz by mirroring people...
An AI trained on motion capture recordings can help robots smoothly imitate human actions, such as d...
What can we learn from a debunked theory of depres...
Rebutting the serotonin theory of depression exposed an important gap in our knowledge. But Joanna M...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn...
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket reached orbit on its first-ever flight early this morning (J...
Watch 2 NASA astronauts repair X-ray telescope on ...
NASA's Nick Hague and Suni Williams will service the X-ray telescope attached to the ISS during a 6....
Ancient society may have carved 'sun stones' to en...
Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and th...
Zero-carbon shipping fuel could be a new source of...
The shipping industry is planning to swap some fossil fuels for green ammonia – but that could creat...
Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the W...
The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain ha...
Battlestar Galactica at 20: the show that reinvent...
How a kitsch "Star Wars" cash-in spawned a bona fide sci-fi classic. So say we all!
The 7 best total solar eclipses of the next 10 yea...
We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.
Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as ...
The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini ...
Are we entering a dangerous new phase of climate c...
A series of events, from the California wildfires to evidence we passed 1.5 degrees last year, sugge...
James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots fe...
The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "brok...
Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in...
Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral commun...
Uncanny 'Alien: Romulus' Ian Holm CGI fixed for ho...
Director Fede Alvarez spoke to Empire about fixing the controversial CGI of Rook in Alien: Romulus.
Is a broken jet stream causing extreme weather tha...
Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that ca...
