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Category: Science
Perseverance Mars rover uncovers the watery history of ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found rocks near its landing site at Jezero crater with a surprising composition that hints that the...
AI writes better stories when it works backwards from a...
AI can write a story where each sentence flows from the next in a grammatically correct, statistically likely way, but often the p...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to 't...
A spacecraft designed to study the sun up close has entered its upper atmosphere for the first time in history
Photons could be ‘split’ in two to create a weird new f...
Physicists have shown that ‘splitting’ particles of light into so-called Majorana bosons, a feat long thought to be mathematically...
Ethereum cryptocurrency delays emissions-slashing upgra...
Ethereum is using almost as much electricity as Ecuador, according to a new analysis, and a long-awaited upgrade to slash its ener...
Covid-19 news: Myocarditis more common after infection ...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
We’ve seen our galaxy’s huge black hole more clearly th...
Astronomers have observed Sagittarius A* – the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy – closer than ever before, and ...
Robotic hand can crush beer cans and hold eggs without ...
A robot hand that has the lightness of touch to hold delicate objects and the strength to crush cans could one day be used as a pr...
Apollo 17 rock sample hints the moon cooled faster than...
A rock sample collected from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has been re-examined, and the results suggest the lunar...
Football matches in top European leagues are becoming m...
Computer predictions for the outcome of European football matches over a 26-year period become more accurate in recent years
The world faces an omicron Christmas but isn’t doing mu...
The festive season will be dominated by a large wave of covid-19 infections caused by the omicron variant, but few countries appea...
Baffling 'space cow' explosion was probably a failed su...
A mysterious space explosion dubbed “the Cow” was far brighter and faster than a typical supernova, and new observations suggest i...