Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft has landed on the surface of the moon, but it seems to have fallen over and we do not yet know if it will be able to drill for ice | Continue reading
Flying commercially in the US remains low risk despite a recent mid-air collision, near misses and job cuts at the Federal Aviation Administration. But aviation safety experts and former FAA employees identify warning signs that would stop them from flying in the future | Continue reading
The US Department of Agriculture announced it will allocate $100 million to develop vaccines and other therapies to help contain the spread of bird flu on poultry and dairy farms | Continue reading
Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past few decades | Continue reading
In a record-breaking test, researchers remotely detected radioactive material by shooting it with infrared laser pulses and analysing how the light scattered | Continue reading
A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at more than a thousand kilometres per second – the result of a giant cosmic collision | Continue reading
It is impossible for us to know exactly how another person's experience of the world compares to our own, but a new experiment is helping to reveal that colour is indeed a shared phenomenon | Continue reading
Sea ice cover in both the Antarctic and Arctic remained far below average throughout February as global average temperatures linger near record highs | Continue reading
Bacterial vaginosis, which is caused by bacteria overgrowing in the vagina, can be hard to treat, with women often experiencing recurring symptoms. Now it seems that asking their male sexual partners to use antibiotic pills and cream could be key to tackling the condition | Continue reading
A new understanding of how an observer can change the disorder, or entropy, of a quantum object could help us probe how gravity interacts with the quantum realm | Continue reading
Most people recover from norovirus, a highly contagious infection, within a few days but it can be particularly risky for some groups. Now a small trial of a pill designed to protect against the virus has shown promise in older people | Continue reading
A rise in cancers among younger people, particularly colorectal cancer, is prompting speculation on social media over the causes. Only slow, careful research can get to the truth | Continue reading
Feedback discovers that breasts have been "largely ignored" when it comes to tactile acuity – but is relieved that researchers have acted to change this oversight | Continue reading
Back in the 1960s, it seemed like better communications could solve all our problems. Don’t blame the technology for the failure of that dream, says Annalee Newitz | Continue reading
Motherdom is the latest book to lay bare the shaky science pressuring parents to perfectly steer their children's development from birth. It's a welcome reality check, finds Penny Sarchet | Continue reading
Supersolids are strange materials that behave like both a solid and a fluid due to quantum effects – and now researchers have created an intriguing new type of supersolid from laser light | Continue reading
Hominins may have learned how to make bone tools by adapting the techniques they mastered for stone ones | Continue reading
Software used by banks and the space industry may still rely on archaic code. We went in search of the oldest code in use and asked, what happens when it glitches? | Continue reading
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing through clouds of dust and gas | Continue reading
The Turing award, often considered the Nobel prize of computing, has gone to two computer scientists for their work on reinforcement learning, a key technique in training artificial intelligence models | Continue reading
When competition for food is high, both chimps and bonobos sometimes rub their genitals together to cope | Continue reading
The Trump administration’s latest move to improve government efficiency has purged tech consultants that worked to improve government efficiency | Continue reading
Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after the start of the universe | Continue reading
A strange new conception of how time warps across the universe does away with cosmology's most mysterious entity, dark energy | Continue reading
We are starting to understand how Greenland sharks can live for centuries without commonly developing tumours | Continue reading
We can describe the quantum realm using straightforward mathematics – but once we try to translate these ideas into the real world, things get weird. Our quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explains why | Continue reading
Colossal Biosciences has altered several genes in mice to make them look more mammoth-like, but the company is far from its goal of fully resurrecting woolly mammoths by 2028 | Continue reading
Soil fungi can make a compound that disrupts how cow stomachs produce the potent greenhouse gas methane | Continue reading
Encryption would normally be expected to slow down computation, but applying the tools of cryptography to "trick" an algorithm can actually make it work faster | Continue reading
DARPA scientists are exploring ways to grow massive biological objects, such as telescope antennas or huge nets to snag debris, in space | Continue reading
Colorectal cancers will soon be the number one cause of cancer death among people under 50. Could changes in lifestyle and environment be to blame? | Continue reading
John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether it’s time travel or a moon made of cheese that takes your fancy, there’s some sci-fi here for you | Continue reading
The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities | Continue reading
Consuming dairy is increasingly being linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer, but the true relationship between the two is hard to untangle | Continue reading
The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone | Continue reading
When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency removed a map of future climate hazards from its website, researchers built their own version | Continue reading
Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as sourness and umami | Continue reading
Some researchers think OpenAI's giant and expensive latest model is a sign that tech companies cannot keep making progress by continually scaling up | Continue reading
Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s extraordinary new show, Deepstaria, is inspired by the marine life of the deep ocean | Continue reading
Golden-bellied capuchins are usually found in humid forests, but some populations appear to have adapted to life in drier habitats with the help of stone tools | Continue reading
Time and memory space are the two main constraints on what we can compute, and understanding their relationship is a key part of computational complexity research | Continue reading
NASA's newest space telescope will scan the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths to help astronomers better understand the evolution of the universe and search for promising spots for extraterrestrial life | Continue reading
In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel Nieva’s mosquito protagonist – and the drowned future world she inhabits | Continue reading
Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his story of a drowned, pandemic-struck future Earth – and his unusual protagonist | Continue reading
Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pattern is being disrupted for tens of thousands of years due to human-induced global warming | Continue reading
Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pattern is being disrupted for tens of thousands of years due to human-induced global warming | Continue reading
Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pattern is being disrupted for tens of thousands of years due to human-induced global warming | Continue reading
Blue Zones, places home to an unusual number of centenarians, are looked to for their secrets to living healthier lives – but are they even real? | Continue reading