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Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a me...
The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is well preserved, making it a hotspot for space research.
'Lexx' appeal: A deeply underrated sci-fi classic ...
A band of misfits aboard a stolen planet-killing starship, the wild, weird Lexx is the best 90s sci-...
Watch SpaceX's Crew-11 astronauts arrive at the IS...
The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will arrive at the International Space Station aroun...
Rookie crewmates kept things fresh for Ax-4 astron...
Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson just extended her American duration record on the International Space S...
Could we get quantum spookiness even without entan...
Particles of light travelling through a maze of devices seem to have passed a famous test for entang...
SpaceX just launched disease-causing bacteria to t...
SpaceX just launched the Crew-11 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA — along with...
The way we train AIs makes them more likely to spo...
The tendency for AIs to give misleading answers may be in part down to certain training techniques, ...
Satellites are helping protect critically endanger...
GPS tracking and high-resolution satellite images are helping humans coexist with endangered elephan...
Best camera for astro now $300 cheaper: This Nikon...
The Nikon Z8 was rated as our best overall camera for astrophotography, and is $600 off on Amazon, p...
SpaceX launches Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for ...
SpaceX launched the Crew-11 on Aug. 1, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station on...
DNA analysis reveals what really killed Napoleon's...
At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques ...
New discovery at CERN could hint at why our univer...
A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates ...
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double bla...
A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that th...
Astronaut savors the moment and shares a stunning ...
The four Expedition 73 members on SpaceX's Crew-10 mission prepared to come home, while also got the...
Big lake in Quebec suddenly disappears, satellite ...
The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.
Stunning 'sun dogs' could sparkle in alien skies, ...
High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzli...
SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th ...
SpaceX performed a single-engine "static fire" trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday...
Cameras that work like our eyes could give boost t...
Neuromorphic cameras, which only record data when a pixel's brightness changes, may be advantageous ...
Did 'primordial' black holes born right after the ...
New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formati...
Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A...
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of...
What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning...
Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Circular Motion, on imag...
Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Ci...
In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club...
Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your b...
When people were randomised to receive either a placebo or Ozempic, they became biologically younger...
Kamchatka earthquake response shows tsunami warnin...
After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, early tsunami warni...
Einstein was wrong (slightly) about quantum physic...
A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as b...
Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to tr...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill-sized device for treating rheumatoid arthrit...
Is life widespread throughout the cosmos? Complex ...
Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it ...
Ageing in the brain may be caused by a breakdown i...
The discovery that brain ageing may be driven by jammed-up protein factories could lead to better wa...
E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 change...
The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for...
SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satellites from Califo...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July...
US says CO2 emissions aren’t harmful – climate sci...
The Trump administration is attempting to argue that greenhouses gases don’t endanger people to reve...
Satellites reveal a hidden lake burst through Gree...
A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturin...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch next space tou...
Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, whic...
SpaceX, NASA scrub Crew-11 astronaut launch due to...
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff to...
Mystery of the potato's origins solved by genetics...
Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with a plant ...
Common artificial sweetener may interfere with can...
People who consume some artificial sweeteners are less likely to respond to certain cancer therapies...
Venus reaches its highest point in the eastern pre...
Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1.
Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details t...
The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait...
Longest lightning ‘mega-flash’ sets a shocking new...
A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially...
Step aside, Captain Kirk! Spock is the Enterprise'...
Spock may be renowned for his impeccable logic, but "Strange New Worlds" has offered a glimpse of th...
ERIS spots spiral disc around young star | Space p...
A possible planet may be carving the disc around the young star
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery s...
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals ...
New world record! Weather satellites detect 515-mi...
Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning.
The best new science fiction books of August 2025
From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned...
Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich oce...
The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K...
Watch SpaceX launch Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS ...
The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission are scheduled to launch toward the International Spa...
Ancient Siberian ice mummy is covered in 'really s...
Tattoos may have been widespread in prehistory, with scientists discovering a plethora of body art o...
SpaceX, NASA say Crew-11 astronaut mission is 'go'...
Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 as...
JWST sees beauty in the death of a star, offers a ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second st...
Human milk could help fight infections that endang...
The prebiotic properties of human milk could be harnessed to treat a bacterial strain known to cause...
