Graham Farmelo has written the first authorised biography of the famous physicist. He should be applauded for digging into various controversies – but could have gone further, says Jacob Aron ...

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

A second dimension of time has long seemed wholly incompatible with reality. But fresh insights involving black holes and ...

Crushing water to pressures in the millions of atmospheres has revealed two strange types of ice, which may form deep inside ...

Ukraine is racing to design faster, more capable interceptor drones to tackle Russia's new generation of jet-powered Shahed ...

The most precise calculation yet of the electroweak force could help fix cracks in the standard model of particle physics ...

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August was the joint hottest month ever observed, tying with July 2023, as the most severe super El Niño on record amplified temperatures already heightened by global warming. The monthly mean ...