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A decades-old cosmic mystery has finally been cracked: the strange X-rays coming from the bright star gamma-Cas are caused by a hidden stellar companion feeding off it. Using cutting-edge observations from the XRISM spac...

In a striking glimpse into extreme physics, scientists have captured the split-second chaos that unfolds when powerful laser flashes blast matter into a superheated plasma. By combining two cutting-edge lasers, researche...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between simple body movement and brain health: every time you tighten your abdominal muscles-even slightly-your brain may gently sway inside your skull. This subtle motion, tri...

Abilities taught to one robot don't usually work on another. With a new approach, it's one and done. The post Robots With Different Designs Can Now Share Skills appeared first on SingularityHub.

The second half of this year will almost certainly see the start of an El Niño phase that could lead to extreme heat across much of the globe, and James Hansen expects that to make this year surpass 2024 as the hottest ...

Nathaniel Johnson, a member of NOAA's El Niño forecasting team, says that this year's transition to El Niño could be the fastest on record.

An analysis of 37 urban bird species found that men could get slightly closer to the avians than women could, suggesting that these animals recognize sex differences in humans.

Proton beams are not only used in sophisticated nuclear physics experiments. Today, they are becoming increasingly popular in radiotherapy, where they are an irreplaceable tool for destroying cancer cells. Doctors and ph...

National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly available, but fears of computer-hacking AI models like Mythos have prompted a change in policy

In this excerpt from "What Science Says About Astrology," author Carlos Orsi examines a 2007 study of 20 million people that showed star signs have no influence on romantic relationships.

Water droplets might seem simple at first. But when nearing evaporation, a desperate power struggle of competing physical forces can emerge, with explosive effects. In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pu...

An infestation of caterpillars can make an oak tree postpone when it opens its leaves next year by three days, wrong-footing the insects when they attack again

With progress at COP climate meetings stalling, 57 countries took part in the first of a new series of conferences aiming to develop roadmaps away from fossil fuels, but big emitters like China and the US were absent

In this extract from Luminous, the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet a mysterious robot discovered in a salvage yard in Seoul, in a future reunified Korea

Building muscle doesnt have to mean exhausting workouts or soreness. Researchers found that slow, controlled lowering movements can boost strength more efficiently while requiring less effort. Even five minutes a day of ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new type of quantum interaction using a single trapped ion. By creating and controlling increasingly complex forms of "squeezing" - including a fourth-o...

Deep in a dried-up riverbed in Brazil, scientists uncovered a bizarre prehistoric mystery-twisted jawbones from a strange, long-lost animal unlike anything seen before. Dating back 275 million years, this creature, named...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that his wife, Penelope, w...

Uranuss outermost two rings are surprisingly dissimilar, which opens up a mystery about the tiny moons and moonlets that form them

May's full moon rises on May Day - May 1 - shortly after sunset, creating a dramatic spectacle for skywatchers.

Scientists have uncovered a tiny wall-dwelling spider named Pikelinia floydmuraria, inspired by Pink Floyd. Despite its size, its a fierce predator that hunts ants much larger than itself and helps reduce common urban pe...

Scientists have created a powerful new way to control quantum systems, achieving the first-ever demonstration of quadsqueezing-an elusive fourth-order quantum effect. By combining simple forces in a clever way, they made...