Science
'Slither' at 20: The alien worm comedy-horror that...
Few went to see the movie in theaters, but 'Slither' still proved that Gunn was a director to watch
How 'For All Mankind' evolved from 'The Right Stuf...
A show that began life as a period piece is now unashamedly hard science fiction.
£115 off for Star Wars Day, I think this Lego Star...
Argos UK is celebrating Star Wars Day early with over 20% off this massive 5,000+ piece Lego Star Wa...
Thinner than a hair and stretchy like rubber: New ...
Scientists have developed a new material that could shield humans and critical technology from harmf...
Is it cake? No, it's a parachute! | Space photo of...
In this donut-shaped bag is a massive parachute. Next stop? Mars.
The Claypool Lennon Delirium's cosmic new album is...
Les Claypool and Sean Lennon discuss AI, art, and empathy in their new concept album 'The Great Parr...
June full moon 2026: When, where and how to see th...
Your guide to June's full Strawberry Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights.
NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hackin...
National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly a...
The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to ...
Should you really be drinking eight glasses of water a day? What about reaching for a sports drink a...
NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers capture s...
New panoramic views from NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers reveal dramatically different Mart...
Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry ca...
An infestation of caterpillars can make an oak tree postpone when it opens its leaves next year by t...
May's full 'Flower Moon' rises tonight: Here's wha...
May's full moon rises as flowers bloom across the northern hemisphere.
Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fos...
With progress at COP climate meetings stalling, 57 countries took part in the first of a new series ...
Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my...
Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, reveals how a book that was ori...
Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
In this extract from Luminous, the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet a mysterious ro...
The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thou...
Uranus’s outermost two rings are surprisingly dissimilar, which opens up a mystery about the tiny mo...
An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reve...
The implications of quantum mechanics suggest reality isn't as solid as we think it is, but physicis...
Russia's new homegrown Soyuz 5 rocket aces debut l...
Russia launched its Soyuz 5 medium-lift rocket for the first time ever on Thursday (April 30), and t...
Artemis 3 has been pushed to late 2027. Can NASA s...
Artemis 3 slips to late 2027 as Starship and Blue Moon lag, delaying NASA’s lunar return timeline an...
US Space Force wants space-based missile intercept...
The United States Space Force has created a new program to develop space-based missile interceptors,...
Is Venus volcanically active? Big Hawaiian eruptio...
Evidence suggests that Venus is still volcanically active, and new data about a big eruption in Hawa...
'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy t...
A cryptocurrency that aims to avoid the disastrous energy consumption of bitcoin is actually using 1...
Meet the legendary heroes and villains of 'Masters...
'When we started visualizing this world, we wanted to do right by the fans'
Astrophotographer captures Pleiades 'Seven Sisters...
Wispy nebula clouds can be seen reflecting the blue-white light of the Pleiades in the stunning amat...
Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liv...
An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hop...
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch seen from space (satell...
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket flew for the first time in 18 months Wednesday (April 29), and a sharp-...
Welcome home! Artemis 2's Orion capsule returns to...
Artemis 2's Orion capsule has returned to its Florida launch site, just three weeks after carrying f...
Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 1...
Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probab...
'This is the Way': Lego goes big with 9 new sets f...
May the 4th 2026 includes the Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter, which will be seen in the upcoming Star...
An Amazon rainforest river from space | Space phot...
The Ucayali River snakes across the rainforest in this image captured by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir...
Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic contro...
Researchers in South Korea say they have made a major advance by turning on genes with an electromag...
The best new science fiction books of May 2026
New science fiction from big names including Ann Leckie, Alan Moore and Martha Wells are just some o...
'This is going to be what makes the Earth secure.'...
Exploration Labs has proposed the first commercial deep space ride share mission, known as Apophis E...
The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer ...
Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthet...
We love this star projector's incredible displays ...
Want to transform a whole room with a stunning stellar display? This Fliti Galaxy Projector offers i...
We have figured out a new way to send messages int...
A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time,...
'The Martian' becomes real life: Meet 'Spudnik,' t...
Fuzzy, purple, and edible, Spudnik is a marvel.
Trump invited the Artemis 2 moon astronauts to the...
President Trump hosted the Artemis 2 moon astronauts at the White House today (April 29), congratula...
Is Ben Mauro's 'Huxley' graphic novel universe the...
'It's exciting to see things come to life and see it grow and expand. It just makes me happy every d...
Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feel...
These unusual images were created by visual artist Daniel Regan by submerging Polaroid photographs i...
James Webb Space Telescope's strange little red do...
Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope c...
Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss ...
Feedback has learned that, according to reports, Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg t...
Europe's powerful Ariane 6 rocket launching 32 Ama...
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket will launch 32 of Amazon's broadband-beaming satellites early Thursday morn...
Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood l...
A procedure that could be done in half an hour, and prepared ahead of time, could seriously reduce b...
Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neithe...
An experiment with a carbon material in a magnetic field has revealed a novel way for electrons to m...
Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than w...
A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of the...
The chips in your phone are probably broken – and ...
Reports suggest that Apple is using defective chips originally destined for high-end devices to crea...
A stray SpaceX rocket stage could slam into the mo...
Earth's moon is to be on the receiving end of a spent rocket stage in early August - the leftovers f...
