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New NASA head wants to build a nuclear reactor on ...
The acting administrator of NASA, Sean Duffy, announced a directive to build a powerful nuclear reac...
Short course of psychotherapy relieves lower back ...
Just eight sessions of a bespoke form of psychotherapy seems to ease lower back pain even three year...
We can repurpose retired coal plants to produce gr...
Piles of dirt can cheaply store renewable energy as heat – and that stored energy can reactivate the...
What are the best ways to improve your cognitive r...
There are three types of cognitive reserve that can protect against decline as we age. Columnist Hel...
These centuries-old equations predict flowing flui...
We use the Navier-Stokes equations every day, for applications from building rockets to designing dr...
Why constipation isn’t just painful, but can lead ...
Increasing evidence suggests chronic constipation can be a causal factor in illnesses including card...
Deep-living microbes could 'eat' energy generated ...
When rocks fracture in underground faults, they generate a variety of chemical compounds that could ...
Can we send a spacecraft to intercept interstellar...
Scientists are exploring various proposals to repurpose existing spacecraft in order to chase after ...
You can lose weight on a diet of ultra-processed f...
People lost weight if they ate an ultra-processed diet that was still based on dietary recommendatio...
Giant meat-eating dinosaur skulls reveal ‘bone-cru...
Differences in the skulls of carnivorous dinosaurs suggest some dinosaurs ripped flesh while others ...
Why mathematicians want to destroy infinity – and ...
Mathematicians who call themselves ultrafinitists think that extremely large numbers are holding bac...
'Universal' detector spots AI deepfake videos with...
A new detection tool can accurately spot deepfake videos featuring any AI manipulation, from face sw...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
