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A chromosome from a frozen rat has been resurrected inside mice

Mice that contain cells with an added rat chromosome have been created by scientists.

NASA tells astronauts to shelter in SpaceX Dragon due to new ISS leaks

The space agency says Roscosmos has discovered new leaks in the Russian service module that it is trying to repair.

Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do

Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from the pad.

The maths meme that has been distracting mathematicians for a century

A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the…

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity

Recent research suggests that quantum entanglement builds the structure of space-time, while a quantum property called…

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

Researchers have identified a Russian constellation of early warning satellites in Molniya orbits as the source of…

He Cracked the Code to Winning the Lottery 14 Times With a Hidden Method

On February 15, 1992, in Virginia, Romanian mathematician Stefan Mandel and his associates scooped $27 million after…

SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity

# Summary SpaceX faces serious safety violations at its Starbase facility, including a worker death in 2026 and…

The Causes of Long Covid

US plans to fight flesh-eating screwworm outbreak with flies and dogs

The insect, which has been found in America for the first time since 1966, is a growing concern in the southern US.

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

Scientists have discovered that queen bee development depends not only on royal jelly diet but also on specialized wax…

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager

CASTOR is a hierarchical storage management system developed at CERN that combines disk and tape storage to archive…

Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds

Scientists in Finland found bees could solve an insect version of the classic "box-and-banana" problem.

Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences

Researchers have developed a new DNA synthesis method called Sidewinder that significantly reduces the time needed to…

Becoming a parent may make you love your partner less

Parents report loving their partners less within the first year of having a child, but that doesn't mean the feeling is…

After 11 years at Mars, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

“I think the team has really experienced the loss of a loved one with the end of the mission.”

Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening

A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the…

In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

# Summary In April 2026, wind and solar energy generated more electricity than gas globally for the first time ever,…

How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern environmental…

Stonehenge's altar stone probably wasn't transported by a glacier

A glacier could have carried the giant sandstone at the centre of Stonehenge southwards from north-east Scotland, but…

U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse

The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a system of over 900 instruments monitoring…

A Mathematician's Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf]

Flesh-eating screwworm infection detected in South Texas, USDA says

If confirmed, it would be the fly's first breach of the US-Mexico border.

Explore a place where science, politics and culture collide

Film exploring the human stories behind mankind’s biggest experiment in particle physics.

The looming El Niño could be bad – but much worse is to come

Global warming will amplify the impacts of El Niño events, and could also make them much stronger and more far-reaching

Escher: The paradoxical artist beloved by mathematicians

A new retrospective of M.C. Escher’s work opens this week.

Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs?

New Scientist recommends a deep dive into our organs by Giulia Enders

Giulia Enders made her name with Gut, an exploration of our intestines.