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Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it – that ...

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Animal studies have shown that lithium orotate could help stave off dementia, and a human trial is about to start to see if ...

The cooling of the North Atlantic is creating waviness in the jet stream and high-pressure ridging over Europe, a study finds ...

Callaghan takes on this mind-bending question by exploring the proof we have that time dilation is both a physical phenomenon ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launches on 30 August, will observe space with the same detail as the Hubble ...

The opening chapter to the New Scientist Book Club's read for September sees Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explore what we gain ...

Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of five kilometres, causing it to plummet around a ...

Atlantic blue crabs have moved into the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, where they are a problem both for ecosystems and ...

In 1992, hot weather was associated with the deaths of 722 people, compared to 3412 deaths for cold weather. By 2023, hot ...