Driving represented an interesting way for neuroscientists to study how rodents acquire new skills, and unexpectedly, rats...
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It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found....
Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens...
You should absolutely not build this thing. But it’s still fun to think through the physics.
A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we...
Water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to fall dramatically as the climate gets hotter, posing...
Governments and companies almost never take action when satellites alert them about large methane leaks coming from...
Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and...
What to expect from Donald Trump’s EPA pick: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy and platitudes...
Two recent studies offer some of the most nuanced evidence yet about the potential benefits and risks...
Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more...
A research team in China has held atoms in a state of quantum superposition for 23 minutes,...
The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale –...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket....
Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining...
With the help of a ruby cube and two laser beams, researchers made one ray of light...
Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespeare, Walt...
The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun,...
Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from industrial hotspots can cause snow to...
Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them...
It’s been a year since the gene-editing treatment Casgevy was approved for sickle cell disease and a...
A surprising reversal of our usual understanding of the second law of thermodynamics shows that it may...
Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, can make plants more resilient to climate change – in a...
Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and...
Fibres in wet wipes and clothes often make their way into soil – and natural versions could...
One day, doctors might be able to 3D print copies of your organs in order to test...
The British Heart Foundation’s Reflections of Research competition showcases beautiful images captured by researchers studying heart and...
Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history....
Experts predict that the number of cancer cases around the world will skyrocket, resulting in millions more...
The Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket made an appearance at a major airshow recently—and looks awfully...
A small world in the outer solar system appears to have volcanic activity possibly spurred by liquid...
WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the...
In support of their AI ambitions, tech companies are rapidly expanding US data centres, and this growth...
From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science...
Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter...
Thousands of hidden graves contain the bodies of the disappeared all across Mexico. Using drones, hyperspectral imaging,...
Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT’s...
DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots,...
Alan Turing’s theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast...
Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand just...
Inside a hunk of a material called a semimetal, scientists have uncovered signatures of bizarre particles that...
A bird flu virus that has been circulating in dairy cattle for months has now been found...
The recent surge in warming led to fears that climate change may be accelerating beyond model projections,...
A US Attorney’s office is investigating the company behind the doomed expedition to the wreck of the...
Weaving tales of magical fruit and vegetables into your children’s stories may encourage them to eat healthy...
Science Corporation’s retinal implant allowed some people who lost their central vision to read, play cards, and...
The Sverris saga describes how castle invaders “took a dead man and cast him unto the well,...
The largest and most ambitious Martian drone yet could carry kilograms of scientific equipment over great distances...
Large language models can be used to scam humans, but AI is also susceptible to being scammed...
The Arrhenius equation, which has accurately described rates of chemical reactions for more than a century, may...
Are humanoid robots the future of space exploration? New Scientist reporter James Woodford took NASA’s Valkyrie for...
Four private astronauts are riding a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule further from Earth than any human since...
Using images captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, researchers have created a cloud atlas...
Hampered last month by bad weather, launch tower problems, and issues with its ride from SpaceX, the...
With antibiotics losing their effectiveness, one company is turning to gene editing and bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—to...
A global survey of more than a thousand cities shows heat and air pollution in urban environments...
When worker ants are exposed to a pathogenic fungus, they build nests that are more compartmentalised to...
From migrating sauropods and semi-aquatic predators to doting parents, palaeontologists are finally uncovering the mysteries of the...
Five satellites due to launch this week could be brighter than most stars, and astronomers fear the...
With antibiotics losing their effectiveness, one company is turning to gene editing and bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—to...
Google has built a quantum computer that makes fewer errors as it is scaled up, and this...
The forecasts predicted an extreme storm season in the Atlantic, but so far there have only been...
People with cancer may have understandable reasons to follow Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson in declining chemotherapy, but...
News of the asteroid 2024 RW1 impacting near the Philippines may have come as a shock this...
Cyanobacteria exposed to shorter days are better at surviving cold conditions, showing that even simple organisms can...
Rubbing a common yellow food dye onto a mouse’s skin turns it temporarily transparent, so we can...
In counties in the US affected by a bat-killing disease, there has been a 31 per cent...
Unlike in the Atlantic, there is little to stop high-intensity storms forming in Southeast Asia, and climate...
Saline drops and sprays have already been linked to reduced cold symptoms in adults and now a...
The largest pterosaurs, ancient reptiles that were the first vertebrates to master flight, may have mostly soared...
With its particles in two places at once, quantum theory strains our common sense notions of how...
After an mRNA vaccine for mpox achieved promising results in monkeys, researchers say it could have several...
Patchy garbage collection services result in more than 50 million tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste each year,...
A network of neurons in the brain seems to be larger in people with depression, which could...
A new procedure turns an alloy of nickel and titanium into a material as strong as steel...
A newly spotted asteroid dubbed CAQTDL2 will impact just east of the Philippines. There is no danger...
Nations and companies are ramping up their efforts to deploy the first satnav on the moon to...
Clouds can trap heat or reflect it away from Earth, making their impact on global warming extraordinarily...
Stem cells made in the lab may one day aid cancer treatment by reducing our reliance on...
Quartz crystals produce electricity when they are deformed by mechanical stress, which may explain how enormous chunks...
Tracking data from a pregnant porbeagle shark near Bermuda suggest it was eaten by a great white...
Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has signs of an enormous ancient impact that would...
Under protective coverings, piles of snow can be stored for a surprisingly long time, allowing ski resorts...
A survey found 66 species of insects making their homes in cobbled pavements on the streets of...
The brain’s microglia fight invaders, clear debris and tend neural connections, but sometimes they go rogue. Preventing...
A faint glow from all of the galaxies that have ever existed fills the cosmos, and NASA’s...
An intricate atlas of the inner lining of the uterus could help researchers better understand conditions like...
Around 25 per cent of the world’s population has intestinal parasite infections – these could hinder the...
The latest Covid-19 surge reportedly has officials considering approval of the new strain-matched vaccine as soon as...
Physicists have demonstrated a bizarre cooling effect by setting up a detector to record the absence of...
For the first time, climate scientists have explicitly said it will be impossible to limit peak warming...
In children aged 6 to 11, long covid seems to often present as sleep problems or abdominal...
After their initial training phase, AI algorithms can’t update and learn from new data, meaning tech companies...
Smashing gold nuclei together at high speeds billions of times has resulted in 16 particles of antihyperhydrogen-4,...
Past observations have indicated that the icy moon of Jupiter has a vast subsurface ocean. Launching in...
A big rethink of our planet’s early years adds to growing fossil, chemical and DNA evidence that...
A radio signal detected in 1977, sometimes claimed as evidence for aliens, may have been caused by...
While the exact cause of the deadly sinking of the Bayesian superyacht remains unknown, dangerous waterspouts were...
A radio signal detected in 1977, sometimes claimed as evidence for aliens, may have been caused by...
Tracking emissions, managing pollutants, responding to natural disasters—even accurately predicting the weather—would all be trampled in a...
