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 ...

Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance technology journalist and author of YouTubers: How YouTube shook up TV and created a new generation of stars and TikTok Boom: China's dynamite app and the superpower ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids – now a sugar found ...

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

A spate of new studies is revealing the lifelong impact of being marked as exceptional during childhood – and the results ...