Has NASA already found life on Mars?
On July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to safely touch down on Mars. Shortly after, it beamed back our first
SpaceX launches Starship on successful test flight
SpaceX on Thursday pulled off its second consecutive successful test flight of its Starship megarocket. The launch hints at sustained progress after years of botched
Mesmerizing NASA time-lapse reveals Mars’s craters, polar ice caps and deserts
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its way to a metal-rich asteroid beyond Mars—and it’s enjoying the scenic route. In a flyby maneuver earlier this year,
Accidental mix-ups of sounds reveal how the brain produces speech
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. “You have hissed the mystery lecture. In fact,
Scientists discover a ‘remarkable’ new monkey species with orange lips and a froglike roar
A “remarkable” African monkey with a distinct orange patch around its mouth and a deep, croaky roar, found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Deadly meat allergies from tick bites are on the rise. Should you be worried?
Tick season is booming, and with it come fears over a potentially deadly tick-borne allergy to meat. Discovered just under 20 years ago, alpha-gal syndrome
Injection halves risk of chromosome error common in older human eggs
Cells with a signal indicating the presence of too many chromosomes DEPT. OF CLINICAL CYTOGENETICS, ADDENBROOKES HOSPITAL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Human eggs that contain too many
Evocative photos of Canadian Arctic win New Scientist Editors Award
A hunter in Tuktoyaktuk in Canada’s Northwest Territories uses decoy geese to lure birds Natalya Saprunova The realities of a changing global climate collide with
A volcano has erupted remnants of Earth’s primordial magma ocean
Submarine reliefs produced by a survey off the coast of Mayotte in 2019, showing the new underwater volcano Fani Maoré Campagne MAYOBS2 A rising underwater
I’m the first person whose life was saved by CRISPR base editing
Alyssa Tapley received life-saving CRISPR treatment Alyssa Tapley When the bone marrow transplant failed to treat my leukaemia, it was like: this is it, there’s