Astrophysics

Greenland voyage sheds light on little-known ancient Ar...

On a recent expedition, researchers braved summer storms in northern Greenland t...

Stunningly preserved pterosaur fossils reveal how they ...

The largest pterosaurs, ancient reptiles that were the first vertebrates to mast...

Evidence mounts that saline nasal drops and sprays help...

Saline drops and sprays have already been linked to reduced cold symptoms in adu...

Even simple bacteria can anticipate the changing seasons

Cyanobacteria exposed to shorter days are better at surviving cold conditions, s...

Mice turned see-through by a dye that lets you watch th...

Rubbing a common yellow food dye onto a mouse's skin turns it temporarily transp...

Bat die-off led to more insecticide use and more infant...

In counties in the US affected by a bat-killing disease, there has been a 31 per...

Can we spot every incoming asteroid before they hit Earth?

News of the asteroid 2024 RW1 impacting near the Philippines may have come as a ...

The Atlantic has been suspiciously quiet this hurricane...

The forecasts predicted an extreme storm season in the Atlantic, but so far ther...

A note from the executive editor on New Scientist Live

There's just over a month to go before the world's greatest festival of ideas an...

Google breakthrough paves way for large-scale quantum c...

Google has built a quantum computer that makes fewer errors as it is scaled up, ...

Sweat monitor could reveal when you are exercising too ...

A band that measures the acidity of sweat could flag if athletes or manual worke...

The Starliner stranding shows why NASA was wise to have...

Space missions are extremely hard. Things going wrong should be expected, so hav...

Will an experimental mRNA vaccine help fight the mpox o...

After an mRNA vaccine for mpox achieved promising results in monkeys, researcher...

A fifth of the world's plastic garbage is either burned...

Patchy garbage collection services result in more than 50 million tonnes of unma...

Does the structure of your brain affect your risk of de...

A network of neurons in the brain seems to be larger in people with depression, ...

Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shift...

A new procedure turns an alloy of nickel and titanium into a material as strong ...

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