Astrophysics

Better weather forecasts could help billions adapt to c...

A worldwide collaboration among meteorology services is trying to fill in the hu...

2023 saw a cautious hope for Alzheimer's treatment but ...

The US approved lecanemab to slow cognitive decline among people with early Alzh...

Sweater that mimics polar bear fur may keep you warm in...

An artificial fibre that mimics polar bear fur has been made into a sweater that...

NASA sends cat video 31 million kilometres through space

The record for long-distance laser messaging has been broken with a high-resolut...

The microbes that give cheddar cheese its distinct flavour

Cheddar cheese's distinct but often subtle flavour comes down to interactions be...

Liquid magnet propellers could be a safer way to power ...

Sharp metal propellers can harm wildlife, so an alternative made using ferroflui...

The best animal photos of 2023, from hyenas to southern...

Our favourite wildlife shots of the year feature an inquisitive hyena pup, a col...

Girls’ brains aged unusually rapidly during the covid-1...

Adolescents’ brains underwent accelerated ageing during the covid-19 pandemic, a...

Quantum physicists just got more certain about quantum ...

An extension of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which places limits on how p...

Vegans who avoid ultra-processed food risk being protei...

Two relatively recent dietary trends – veganism and concerns about highly proces...

The science of why spending time in nature is just so g...

Getting outside to garden or walk in a park is good for your body – it’s exercis...

The development of embryos may be less shaped by genes ...

The chemical reactions in cells appear to shape an embryo's development, possibl...

AI discovers new class of antibiotics to kill drug-resi...

Artificial intelligence helped screen millions of chemical compounds to find a c...

The laws of physics were broken in 2023 - by sperm

New Scientist's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sper...

Famous quantum experiment could be shrunk to the size o...

A single, extremely cold atom could play the role of two slits in the classic do...

Snowflakes fall to the ground according to a universal ...

After analysing the way half a million snowflakes fell during mountain storms in...

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