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Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious metals from asteroids, but it might also ...
Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...
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A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest ...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic ...
The idea of a multiverse of universes is derived from a particular interpretation of quantum mechanics, but now a new twist ...
Researchers have developed algorithms that reconstruct a hidden image from the scrambled light waves that bounce off a wall, ...
The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley on how she made time travel work in her bestselling novel, the latest pick for ...
There have never been so many satellites orbiting Earth as there are today, thanks in part to the launch of mega ...
Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Start-up Nord Quantique ...
City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, ...
Dense breast tissue can make tumours hard to spot on mammogram scans, but adding another step to this screening programme ...