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Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again

"This further confirms the wisdom of the current policy of retiring the ISS in 2030."

Epic dreaming is leaving people exhausted and distressed

Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling…

Women’s better memories may delay Alzheimer’s diagnosis by years

Women appear cognitively normal for almost three years longer than men after their brains start to develop Alzheimer’s…

Gonorrhoea and syphilis hit record levels in Europe

STIs have surged thanks to record cases and gaps in testing and prevention, a health agency reports.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

Researchers have restored striking photographs from the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, revealing vivid details…

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

Global warming has accelerated to roughly twice the rate of previous decades, warming at 0.36°C per decade since 2013-14…

Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering

Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with…

Starship's Twelfth Flight Test

NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world

"As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."

Artificial Womb for Growing Mammals Is at 'One-Yard Line', Says Colossal CEO

De-extinction startup Colossal claims it has built an artificial womb capable of supporting mammal development—and it's…

SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death

SpaceX has delayed its Starship V3 test flight to May 21 following a worker's death at its Texas Starbase facility,…

Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

Women’s body temperature rises from age 18 to 42 but we don’t know why

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring…

The mysterious reason why women get warmer from age 18 to 42

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring…

The mysterious reason why women get hotter from age 18 to 42

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring…

Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.

In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology.

Photos reveal unexpected details from the world's first atomic test

Previously classified photos and documents show the scientific work that went into the world's first atomic test in 1945…

How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time

On a visit to the UK, Sydney-based reporter James Woodford visited an archaeological site that was on his bucket list –…

Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life.

PMOS shows us why many scientific terms need to be renamed

Like covid-19 and mpox before it, the decision to relabel PCOS as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome is a welcome…

New Scientist recommends a devastating account of farming honeybees

Jennie Durant's Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas…

Shiver me timbers: Do we have to worry about space pirates now?

Feedback goes down a "moon warfare" rabbit hole and discovers that some forward-thinkers are making plans to counteract…

Putting CO2 into rocks and getting hydrogen out is climate double win

Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a…

We could generate hydrogen from rocks while storing CO2 in them

Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a…

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or…

Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

Fifty years ago, a draft of Richard Dawkins’s first book landed on book editor Michael Rodgers’s desk – and life was…

After news about Oliver Sacks's "lies", we revisit his best-loved book

Last year, The New Yorker revealed the late Sacks's "guilt" about his “falsification” in The Man Who Mistook His Wife…