June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a ...

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An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe ...

When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies ...

Sea star larvae have been stored at −200°C and thawed for the first time, a step towards restoring populations that have been ...

Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more ...

Taurine supplements have previously been found to extend the lifespan of monkeys and mice, but a new study in humans shows ...

Nuclear fusion power will probably require vast quantities of enriched lithium – but we aren’t making nearly enough, and ...

Metallic nanoparticles injected into the retina partly restored vision in blind mice and could work as a treatment for ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on ...