Scientists have long grappled with how to measure the effect of social media on children. Now, the UK government has ...

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Quantum computing firm QuEra says it plans to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer and offer it to users through the cloud ...

Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots understand instructions and ...

Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally ...

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully ...

Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including ...

We know that members of Gen Z are less likely to be in a steady relationship than millennials were at their age, but previous ...

Just under Earth’s surface, 110 quadrillion kilometres of carbon-rich fungi intersect with plant roots. This vast network has ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually ...

One-third of people with anorexia nervosa don’t recover and treatment has remained stagnant for years. Now we’re beginning to ...