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Walking 3000 steps a day seems to slow Alzheimer's...
Alzheimer's-related cognitive decline could be slowed by taking as few as 3000 steps a day, possibly...
Space exploration in the backyard, on a budget – h...
You may have heard about the extensive testing facilities for spacecraft and equipment, but how do s...
Antarctic glacier's alarming retreat is the fastes...
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid mel...
Astronaut from Pakistan will be 1st international ...
A Pakistani astronaut will fly to China's Tiangong space station for a short visit, marking the star...
Does the family tree of ancient humans need a dras...
Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our...
Bwine F7GIM drone review
The Bwine F7GIM is a lightweight beginner drone that weighs above the 250 g threshold, but it flies ...
The International Space Station will fall to Earth...
We'll lose the ISS pretty soon. What might we lose with it?
Rubin Observatory basks in galactic glow | Space p...
A new panorama from the Rubin Observatory captures the Milky Way in vivid detail.
SpaceX's Starlink and other satellites face growin...
There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing n...
Don't miss the biggest full moon of the year rise ...
The November full moon will be the closest and brightest full moon of the year.
Want to beat the Black Friday rush and guarantee a...
If you're thinking about waiting for Black Friday for a star projector deal, you might want to consi...
Our bodies are ageing faster than ever. Can we hit...
All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected...
Scientists discover oldest air on record trapped i...
Scientists working with the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX) have collected the oldest dir...
We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of...
The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too dista...
Orcas are ganging up on great white sharks to eat ...
For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great w...
What's happening on the International Space Statio...
NASA's astronauts living in space are still going to work during the government shutdown.
25 Years of the International Space Station: What ...
We wanted to show space agencies that were already planning three-year missions to Mars what they we...
Meet Point Nemo, where the International Space Sta...
The International Space Station just notched a major milestone, but its days are numbered: The ISS w...
Watch India's most powerful rocket launch a huge m...
India will launch the powerful CMS-03 military communications satellite to orbit today (Nov. 2), and...
SpaceX launches private space station pathfinder '...
SpaceX launched its 140th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Nov. 2), sending the "Haven Demo" tech...
PBS celebrates 25 years of the ISS with NOVA's 'Op...
This intimate look at the design, building, and operation of the ISS airs on PBS Nov. 5 and Nov. 12....
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 184 — Space is...
On Episode 184 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look at why space can be scary with a...
Blue Origin fires up powerful New Glenn rocket ahe...
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket has successfully completed a static fire test ahead of launc...
A Flash, a Boom, a New Microbe Habitat
After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few m...
Does the full moon make us sleepless? A neurologis...
Research shows a full moon can modestly affect sleep, but its influence on mental health is much les...
Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is still full ...
"The reason for 3I’s rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud co...
Satellite images show 'mesovortices' forming aroun...
Footage from a NOAA satellite taken Oct. 28 shows Melissa’s deadly spin as it moves across the Carib...
Astronomers capture vast cosmic bat spreading its ...
The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic ...
Best sci-fi horror books: Top sci-fi horror reads ...
From Orwell's dystopian paranoia to Jeff VanderMeer's ecological nightmares, these science-fiction h...
Quantum computers reveal that the wave function is...
The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observa...
Trick or treat: Here's where to find comets Lemmon...
Read on to discover where comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS are in the Halloween night sky on Oct. 21...
'Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a t...
Scientists are searching for answers in the cosmic mystery of ghost particles known as neutrinos.
China launches Shenzhou 21 astronauts to Tiangong ...
Shenzhou 21, China's latest astronaut mission, is on its way to the Tiangong space station after a F...
Become the scary alien this Halloween with these 5...
Many video games are full of alien horrors, but these are the best games that let players turn the t...
Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious grou...
We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there...
Bulletproof fabric laced with carbon nanotubes is ...
A sheet of fabric that is three times stronger than Kevlar could stop a bullet despite being just 1....
Explore the Milky Way like never before in this st...
Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created,...
Halloween colors come to Kitt Peak Observatory | S...
For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory...
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon c...
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming imp...
The gut microbiome may play a role in shaping our ...
Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting...
The best new science fiction books of November 202...
From Claire North’s new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikov...
Halloween stargazing 2025: The moon and Saturn lig...
A waxing gibbous moon and the ringed planet Saturn will enlighten our sky for treat-or-treaters this...
Watch China launch 3 astronauts toward its Tiangon...
China will launch three astronauts toward its Tiangong space station today (Oct. 31), and you can wa...
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during...
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of pr...
The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain's prize-winning popular science boo...
Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of Y...
In this passage from the opening of Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel, the November read for the New Scienti...
If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia,...
Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explo...
Boy's body was mummified and turned green by a cop...
The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new ins...
New laser drill could help scientists explore ice-...
Scientists have developed a laser-based ice drill concept that could enable deeper, low-power explor...
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