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The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply ...

The AI company Anthropic has announced that its Claude large language model has discovered a system reminiscent of CRISPR, ...

It isn't easy to demonstrate that a new geometric shape can actually exist in the real world, but one researcher argues that ...

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat ...

Previous brain implants have enabled people with paralysis to either speak or move, but a new, larger one enabled them to do ...

Uncertainty about when or even if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a vital ocean current, might collapse has ...

Grim warnings of the existential risk posed by AI are all over the news, but there is very little evidence to back them up ...

Higher temperatures around the world due to the record-breaking El Niño will lead to an estimated 450,000 extra deaths by ...

What is Curiosity Engine? Curiosity Engine is an AI chatbot developed by New Scientist and technology company Miso. Its goal ...

Texts from imperial China suggest that some crimes were punishable with unusual amputations and a 700-year-old skeleton ...