An experiment with ultracold potassium atoms has revealed details of a type of turbulence that only exists in the quantum ...

D printing, microcontrollers and drones have enabled the resurgence of antipersonnel mines in the Russia-Ukraine war, making ...

The Hubble Space Telescope faces a fiery and fatal re-entry to Earth's atmosphere sometime around 2032, but NASA is asking ...

Verica, a British ruler who encouraged the Roman emperor Claudius to launch an invasion, may not have been the man historians ...

Australia was the first country to ban under-16s from social media platforms a year ago, but most observers believe the ...

A magnet barely wider than a human hair is one of the fastest spinning objects ever and could be useful for both fundamental ...

No one is expecting COP31 to save the world from climate disaster, but it could provide a small taste of how international ...

The first engineered structure built to last for 100,000 years is about to begin operations. The hope is that Onkalo, deep ...

The race to build a moon base is ramping up. Columnist Robin George Andrews explores how NASA is preparing by sending a ...

Dry soil and high pressure can amplify extreme heat, helping to explain why regions like Europe are suffering ...

Parkinson's disease is linked to toxic protein clumps and disrupted brain waste removal, which may feed off each other, ...

Olivia Goldhill is a features editor at New Scientist, focused on biomedicine, health and neuroscience. She's especially ...