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A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

Using GPT-4o, the model behind ChatGPT, researchers have replicated the personality and behaviour of more than 1000 people, ...

Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping ...

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Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the ...

Analysis of millions of galaxies upholds Albert Einstein’s ideas about gravity and also offers tantalising new hints of how ...

Spaghetti strands that are 200 times thinner than a human hair could be woven into bandages to help prevent infections ...

Changes to the structure of DNA within fat cells may be why it is often so hard to keep weight off after you have lost it ...

Kazuo Ishiguro’s heartbreaking dystopian novel of young love and organ donation has been superbly adapted for the stage ...

The vast computational power of the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will be ...