Particles of light travelling through a maze of devices seem to have passed a famous test for entanglement – without being ...

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it ...

At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques have identified two ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill-sized device for treating rheumatoid arthritis, marking the first ...

When people were randomised to receive either a placebo or Ozempic, they became biologically younger with the latter drug ...

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

The tendency for AIs to give misleading answers may be in part down to certain training techniques, which encourage models to ...

Tattoos may have been widespread in prehistory, with scientists discovering a plethora of body art on a pastoralist who died ...

Neuromorphic cameras, which only record data when a pixel's brightness changes, may be advantageous for capturing extremely ...

Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is ...

In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our protagonist boards ...

Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been ...