In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

Particles of light travelling through a maze of devices seem to have passed a famous test for entanglement – without being ...

At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques have identified two ...

The tendency for AIs to give misleading answers may be in part down to certain training techniques, which encourage models to ...

When people were randomised to receive either a placebo or Ozempic, they became biologically younger with the latter drug ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill-sized device for treating rheumatoid arthritis, marking the first ...

Earlier this year, astronomers reported possible evidence of life on another planet – but new observations from JWST suggest ...

Tattoos may have been widespread in prehistory, with scientists discovering a plethora of body art on a pastoralist who died ...

A pair of quantum experimenters that share two entangled particles may be able to pass some of that entanglement to other ...

Russian ambush drones have been seen in Ukraine fitted with cheap solar panels, which enable them to lurk indefinitely, ...

Neuromorphic cameras, which only record data when a pixel's brightness changes, may be advantageous for capturing extremely ...

In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our protagonist boards ...