SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, ...

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For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood ...

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We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to the biggest question in the universe, we will need to bring samples back to ...

New Scientist is 60 years old this week, and what better way to celebrate a landmark birthday than to wax lyrical about another time. But we’re not going to hark back to the past. We’re going to gaze ...

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To eliminate bedtime struggles, a growing number of parents have turned to melatonin gummies, but these hormone supplements are largely unregulated. Columnist Alice Klein digs into the evidence on the ...

Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and we're starting to ...