For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms together really works.

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Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, with a study now ...

A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch ...

A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn't produce perfect copies – with big implications ...

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows ...

Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are ...