Science
Large Hadron Collider reveals 'primordial soup' of...
Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have fou...
1.1 million mph cosmic winds race through 'magneti...
Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dra...
Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: Moo...
Friday, Jan. 30, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a cre...
Can we genetically improve humans using George Chu...
Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutatio...
Living spaceships, plague planets, and a quote fro...
Read an excerpt of this deep-space mystery from the prolific writer of 'Whalefall' and 'Angel Down.'...
NASA delays critical Artemis 2 rocket fueling test...
NASA has been forced to delay a critical fueling test for its Artemis 2 moon rocket due to unusually...
Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain dama...
Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and ...
See the moon glow next to mighty Jupiter in the wi...
The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.
Is a MacBook or Windows laptop better for astropho...
Both Windows and MacBooks have advantages for astrophotography, but the choice will depend on your p...
Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision...
Reports suggest that Elon Musk is eyeing up a merger involving SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, but what does ...
Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid i...
Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and e...
The best new science fiction books of February 202...
We pick the sci-fi novels we’re most looking forward to reading this month, from a new Brandon Sande...
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) crumbles apart in stunning...
The comet broke into pieces after making a close approach around the sun in October 2025.
How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmar...
In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all ...
From space to the seabed, critical infrastructure ...
"We are on Day 1. A lot more needs to be done."
Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex r...
Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-ficti...
Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton
In this extract from the February read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet the protagonist of T...
Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dys...
The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia t...
This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-r...
Elizabeth Hohmann is very interested in faeces, and spends her days sifting through stools to find t...
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from two coast...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites lifted off from California on Jan. 29, 2026...
AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggr...
Interval cancers are aggressive tumours that grow during the interval after someone has been screene...
Astronomers watch 1st black hole ever imaged launc...
"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations...
Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: NAS...
Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a c...
Watch Rocket Lab launch Korean disaster-monitoring...
Rocket Lab will try again tonight (Jan. 29) to launch a South Korean disaster-monitoring satellite, ...
New 'Starfleet Academy' episode 'Vox in Excelso' s...
Think Klingons are just loudmouthed louts with terrible table manners? Think again…
US government declassifies Cold War-era 'JUMPSEAT'...
The National Reconnaissance Office just revealed the existence of its "JUMPSEAT" line of spy satelli...
Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half t...
A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly...
NASA's Juno spacecraft spots the largest volcanic ...
"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multi...
NASA's Artemis 2 crewed mission to the moon shows ...
The United States is no longer competing against a single rival in a largely symbolic race.
This trio of 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' cadets...
"It's like when you watch 'The Lord of the Rings.' It feels like it's drawing from such a deep well ...
Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warm...
Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the populati...
Jupiter's moon Europa has an ice shell about 18 mi...
Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is a...
Best Lego NASA sets 2026: Build NASA's finest from...
We've rounded up the best Lego NASA sets to suit a range of budgets and ages.
The 10 best sci-fi TV Shows of the 1990s
From "The X-Files" to "Farscape," drift back three decades with us as we reminisce over the last gre...
Satellite sees river flow across the globe | Space...
Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overal...
Goodbye Goldilocks: Scientists may have to look be...
Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.
Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness o...
Adults with kidney cancer who received faecal microbiota transplants on top of their existing drugs ...
The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowa...
Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine whic...
James Webb Space Telescope reveals new origin stor...
Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest sup...
NASA and SpaceX move up launch of Crew-12 astronau...
NASA and SpaceX are proceeding ahead of schedule with their next astronaut launch to the Internation...
NASA exoplanet probe tracks interstellar comet 3I/...
The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.
How Earth's atmosphere and climate come together t...
To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 m...
See the Milky Way glow with the stars of the Summe...
Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.
SpaceX targeting mid-March for 1st flight of bigge...
SpaceX plans to launch the 12th test flight of its Starship megarocket in six weeks, according to El...
Proteins before planets: How space ice may have cr...
"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have show...
Think of a card, any card – but make it science
Feedback has been informed about a "global telepathy study" which is currently taking place, but isn...
Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our w...
How much do you know about friction? Jennifer R. Vail's charming, if sometimes technical, "biography...
How your health is being commodified by social med...
From health tech developers to influencers, our health is being monetised – and we need to be aware ...
Rocket Lab's 'Hungry Hippo' Neutron fairing arrive...
The "hungry hippo" fairing for Rocket Lab's new Neutron launch vehicle has arrived for integration a...
