The Beatles are set to release their last single, "Now and Then". The song was produced using musical parts that include the vocals of John Lennon, which were extracted from poor quality recordings by AI | Continue reading
On 28 October, the full moon had a red tinge for viewers in the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa, created by Earth's shadow | Continue reading
Largest analysis of brain scanning data yet suggests concerns about getting 7-to-8 hours sleep a night are overblown | Continue reading
Several species of flies, moths and planthoppers look so much like their jumping spider enemies that they fool an image-recognition AI | Continue reading
Palestinian telecommunications companies say that Israeli military bombardment of Gaza has cut off nearly all mobile phone and internet communications services | Continue reading
More than a third of food produced in the US goes to waste. Most of it ends up in landfills where it becomes a major source of planet-warming methane as it decays | Continue reading
Ketamine becomes trapped inside certain receptors in the brains of mice – and the longer it is trapped, the longer its antidepressant effects last | Continue reading
A screening test for bowel cancer that looks for RNA in stools can be done at home and is almost as good at detecting the condition as gold-standard colonoscopies | Continue reading
An experiment on the International Space Station suggests early embryo development isn't affected by the low-gravity, high-radiation conditions | Continue reading
As rock is carved by the wind, it can take on a sphinx-like shape, meaning the Great Sphinx in Egypt may have been partly formed through natural processes | Continue reading
Mysterious rhythmic bursts of light from a supernova hint that it has become a compact object like a black hole or neutron star | Continue reading
The mini galaxy plant was found flowering on a gravel road after no official sightings had been made since 1981 | Continue reading
Household smart meters give a live summary of energy usage and its cost – but the planned switch-off of 2G and 3G mobile networks means that some 7 million devices in England, Wales and Scotland will stop working, warns a government committee | Continue reading
From The Fly to Event Horizon, horror expert Neil McRobert is here just in time for Halloween with a guide to the best science horror films of all time | Continue reading
A flywheel helps smooth the output of mechanical energy from an engine, and now there is a blueprint for making a quantum version | Continue reading
Flatworms are slow-moving predators with poor vision, but one of them managed to attack a spider as it guarded its egg sac | Continue reading
Viruses that infect bacteria – called phages – are abundant in our bodies, and they seem to have beneficial effects when our cells engulf them | Continue reading
A record-breaking superatomic semiconductor material allows particles to traverse it between 100 and 1000 times faster than electrons pass through a silicon chip | Continue reading
We know that migraines, which are recurrent and sometimes debilitating headaches, have some genetic basis, but the link with our DNA isn't entirely clear. Newly identified genetic variants could help in developing treatments | Continue reading
The majority of female mammals stop producing eggs long before the end of their potential lifespans, but in the wild few reach this point, other than humans and some whales | Continue reading
The full moon on 28 October will have a red tinge for viewers in the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa as part of the moon passes into Earth’s shadow | Continue reading
A model predicts that marine cloud brightening would reduce the risk of some disastrous changes in the climate, but could also have some negative consequences | Continue reading
Six AI tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, were exploited to write code capable of damaging commercial databases – although OpenAI appears to have now fixed the vulnerability | Continue reading
Different measures of distractibility could be combined into a single "d score" to assess if someone may have ADHD | Continue reading
Very few non-human animals have passed the mirror self-recognition test, but roosters have now succeeded at a modified version, which may mean they can understand that a reflection represents their own body | Continue reading
Smart glasses that play a specific noise when an object comes into their field of view, such as the sound of a page turning to represent a book, enable people who are blind to locate that item | Continue reading
Nearly 73 per cent of South Australia's energy comes from wind and solar, the highest of any major grid in the world. The state's remarkably rapid transition to renewables offers vital lessons, and hope | Continue reading
All the weather models forecasted that Otis would make landfall as a tropical storm but instead it intensified into a Category 5 hurricane | Continue reading
Rob Eastaway and Brian Hobbs take over our maths column to reveal who solved their puzzle and won a copy of their New Scientist puzzle book, Headscratchers | Continue reading
We all know about black holes – we've even seen a picture of one. But white holes? In his latest book, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli weaves a poetic spell to persuade us that these mysterious entities are real | Continue reading
This shot, showing an unexpected victor in the clash between a great white shark and some Cape fur seals, is taken from Planet Earth III: Our world at the dawn of a new age, a new book accompanying the BBC series | Continue reading
From sexism's "benefits" to mothers' role in creating culture, Cat Bohannon rethinks the role of women in Eve: How the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution | Continue reading
Let's lose the old stereotypes about engineering, because attracting new talent is crucial to meeting net-zero goals, says Dr Hayaatun Sillem | Continue reading
Online celebrity culture, such as the saga of movie stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, is the ultimate counterprogramming in a time of conflict, says Annalee Newitz | Continue reading
Monika Schleier-Smith is testing the idea that space-time emerges, like a hologram, from quantum interactions by attempting to make it in the lab | Continue reading
Images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show a 44-kilometre-wide crater with hints of recent volcanic activity | Continue reading
Months of high temperatures and low rainfall are taking their toll on wildlife and people living along the Amazon river, and climate change could bring more extreme conditions | Continue reading
One of the biggest questions in physics asks whether space-time is classical or quantum in nature. From slow neutrinos to quantum foam, these experiments are hoping to finally answer it | Continue reading
Electrolysers that split water to produce hydrogen have trouble working with seawater, but overcoming this would offer new ways to produce the clean-burning fuel using offshore renewable energy | Continue reading
Researchers have identified neurons in mice that influence whether the animals experience motion sickness, which could lead to new ways of preventing the condition in humans | Continue reading
Systems that humans depend on could collapse if we don’t take action to address groundwater depletion, melting glaciers and space debris, according to a UN report | Continue reading
To unmask the hidden science of Halloween, we've made these seven premium articles free to read for a week. Enjoy... if you dare! | Continue reading
A lethal form of bird flu has been discovered in the Antarctic region for the first time and it could kill many seals and whales as well as millions of birds | Continue reading
A better picture of the hidden landscape beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica could help us understand how the ice will respond to climate change | Continue reading
South Australia is a renewable energy champion and now plans a truly fossil fuel-free grid. How did it make such a remarkable turnaround, and can the rest of the world follow suit? | Continue reading
Most of the planets discovered in the universe so far would be incredibly hostile for life, but Dead Planets Society is intent on creating one worse than any we’ve seen before | Continue reading
Atom Computing has created the first quantum computer to surpass 1000 qubits, which could improve the accuracy of the machines | Continue reading
When a mixture of pea protein and sunflower oil is fermented with lactic acid-producing bacteria, it develops a firm texture and produces flavour compounds found in dairy cheese | Continue reading