Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ...

Researchers have created the first living synthetic bacterium made from non-living parts by killing a bacterial cell and then ...

Researchers identified nearly 10,000 websites where API keys could be found, exposing details that could let attackers access ...

Qilimanjaro is selling a relatively cheap kit with everything you need for a quantum computer – you just need to be able to ...

On Tuesday, CERN will transport antiprotons on a truck for the first time, testing the plan to deliver antimatter by road to ...

Read Issue #3587 21 March 2026 of New Scientist magazine for the latest news from across the world of science, plus long reads, opinion, analysis, and more ...

When scientific challenges are too big to solve alone, the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme funds collaborations across the continent. Discover how researchers from Spain and Germany ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place and minimal damage. Some believe the same could be ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...