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NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

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Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories in Canada has ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

It will be some months before the true toll of Europe's worst-ever heatwave is confirmed, but researchers can estimate a ...

A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might ...

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was ...