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Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Maui in Hawaii experienced some of the worst wildfires in US history in 2023. Amid concerns of a PTSD epidemic, flotation ...

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed ...

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, 'Luminous' on emotional artificial intelligence, our ...

As both sides of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war attempt to claim technological supremacy, drone versus drone combat has become routine – and thanks to the ubiquity of cameras, this new kind of warfare ...

Women appear cognitively normal for almost three years longer than men after their brains start to develop Alzheimer’s ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and ...

Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling for ...

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...