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Audacious mission to rescue NASA's falling telesco...
NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite...
Orangutan mothers seem to plan playdates for their...
Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to...
Evocative photos of Canadian Arctic win New Scient...
Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit ter...
June heatwave may have killed around 20,000 people...
It will be some months before the true toll of Europe's worst-ever heatwave is confirmed, but resear...
Random wobbles in time could finally solve gravity...
The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a no...
Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve li...
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to prov...
Geoengineering could expose plane passengers to su...
A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles w...
The best new popular science books of July 2026
From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular scienc...
Have scientists really made a living cell from scr...
A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial g...
What is 'SpudCell'? Arguably the greatest bioengin...
A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial g...
The weirdness of neutrinos could completely rewrit...
A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standa...
A type of fibre that stimulates GLP-1 release appr...
A form of fibre that boosts the release of the hunger-reducing hormone GLP-1 has been approved as sa...
The best new science-fiction novels published in J...
Sci-fi fans can enjoy a new Red Dwarf novel – the first for 30 years – this month, as well as sci-fi...
Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and ...
Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic M...
The world's fastest spider tops 3.5 metres per sec...
The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatom...
The most detailed survey of the universe ever cond...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, wh...
This physicist is hunting for the biggest black ho...
Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains...
Babies are born with the neural foundations for ma...
Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate ...
