A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it’s not really…
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one…
Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste — the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of…
A jungle huntsman spider during a speed testChristofer Clemente/University of the Sunshine Coast A huntsman spider found in Queensland, Australia,…
Indonesian astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of an open cluster in the constellation Norma, known as NGC 6134. Results…
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried a vast collection of scrolls in ash and scorched them into solid black…
A cyborg cockroach with a suit for breathing underwaterNTU Singapore Swarms of cyborg insects controlled remotely via electrical implants can…
Roughly 27,500 years ago, a 15-year-old boy was brutally mauled by a bear in Arene Candide in what is now…
As I sip coffee in my Berlin apartment and fire a question at Google’s AI chatbot Gemini, it’s easy not…
Tracy Hutchinson has a rare mutation of the TP53 geneTracy Hutchinson I started to wonder if something funky was going…
Howdy, pards, here’s a quick roundup of the week’s science news: Moose, previously thought to be a transplanted species, are…
It takes a dozen or so hours for the mushroom to kick in. Then, the hallucinations are unlike any others…
Slow Gods by Claire North is the New Scientist Book Club’s read for July This is the story of the…
The two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela’s northern coast, killing more than 180 people, were an event known as a…
Thousands of previously undetected tiny earthquakes have revealed the edge of a miniature tectonic plate slamming into Alaska near the…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover alongside a rock with markings that resemble features made by microbesNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover has found…
You’re the grillmaster at the annual family Fourth of July barbecue, and you’re sweating bullets standing over the grill in…
Earth’s oldest known impact crater formed when a meteorite slammed into what is now Australia about 3 billion years ago…
The gene therapy is said to provides instructions for how to synthesise an anti-ageing protein, but it doesn’t integrate into…
Can economic inequality threaten liberal societies? This question lies at the heart of the POLAR project led by Markus Gangl,…
When galaxies collide, it’s less like a train wreck and more like a marriage: Two separate entities merge into a…
Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could…
Many of the problems facing the more than 134,000 households living in temporary accommodation in England today—including more than 176,000…
For most people, a minor cut or scrape is no big deal — the body heals itself quickly, and antibiotics…
A scanning electron micrograph of the intestinal lining of a mouse, with several bacteria (green) and one red blood cell…
More than half of France’s population was dealing with scorching temperatures on Friday, according to AFP’s calculations, with hundreds of…
High estrogen in the brain’s memory center may worsen one’s resilience against traumatic events, swaying the tendency to develop memory…
A fossil baby embolomere from Mazon Creek, IllinoisArjan Mann A set of exquisitely preserved 300-million-year-old fossils suggests that early four-limbed…
An orange-colored yeast species isolated from a Baltimore sidewalk several years ago could be the basis of eco-friendly mosquito traps…
Evidence of two ancient wooden posts aligned with the summer and winter solstices has been discovered near Stonehenge in southwest…