Metallic hydrogen has been created in the lab for the first time, by squeezing a sample of the element to pressures beyond what exists at the centre of the Earth. The creation of a substance first ...

Clare Wilson is a health journalist focused on medicine, health policy, neuroscience, archaeology and the life sciences. She previously edited medical features for New Scientist and was biomedical ...

A supplement comprised of dead bacteria seems to remove microplastics, and prevent their absorption into cells, by attracting ...

Jake Buehler is a freelance science writer located in Washington state who adores the tree of life’s weird, wild and unsung ways. Jake has a background in marine biology and genetics, and writes about ...

Time is relatively well-described in current physical theories – it’s just that those descriptions are perplexingly at odds both with each other and with our perception of what time should be.

An experiment showed AI users had the most creative ideas when they used it in moderation – not too much and not too little. Columnist David Robson puts the finding to the test, and explores what we l ...

An open-source flight-control system found in consumer drones has been installed in Ukraine’s latest cruise missile, showing ...

Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low cost ...

The 2026 Tour de France has been the hottest ever. Norwegian-method pioneer and Uno-X Mobility coach Olav Aleksander Bu ...

Ethiopian wolves feed on the sweet nectar of a local flower, picking up pollen on their snouts as they do so – which may make them the first carnivores discovered to act as pollinators. The Ethiopian ...

Zombie, or senescent, cells accumulate in our body with age, when we become less able to clear them. But a study in mice ...

A new kind of antibody drug that more efficiently enters the brain could slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease with a ...