Your imagination holds the power to make you healthier and happier
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality,” Lewis Carroll famously wrote in Alice in Wonderland. To the…
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Photographer captures ‘rare’ ripples over Colorado night sky
Ghostly green ripples can be seen in the hazy green airglow above. (Image credit: Aaron Watson/Skies Alive Photography) Beneath the…
Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak
The skeleton of a sabre-toothed cat chrisstockphotography/Alamy Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits…
Great eared nightjar: The ‘baby dragon’ bird that lays its eggs on the floor
QUICK FACTS Name: Great eared nightjar (Lyncornis macrotis) Where it lives: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the…
Murderbot review: How the new TV series made me a reluctant convert
Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) just wants to be left alone Apple TV+ MurderbotApple TV+ Friends and colleagues spent years trying to get…
Infamous ‘neutron lifetime puzzle’ may finally have a solution — but it involves invisible atoms
A mysterious second flavor of hydrogen atoms — one that doesn’t interact with light — may exist, a new theoretical…
Guess who brought back Agatha Christie as an AI clone
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe…
Giant ‘senior citizen’ sunspot on 3rd trip around the sun could break a century-old record
A massive, “geriatric” sunspot is currently making its third trip across the sun‘s Earth-facing surface, around two months after it…
How a study in the Stockholm subway could help prevent violent crime
Nearly half a million people are murdered around the world every year. While the means vary across nations – knives…
What goes up must come down: How megaconstellations like SpaceX’s Starlink network pose a grave safety threat to us on Earth
In 2024, several farmers across Saskatchewan, Canada, had to deal with a bizarre situation: chunks of SpaceX space junk had…