Why the world’s militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink
An illustration showing some of Starlink’s 10,000 satellitesxnk/Shutterstock Starlink’s satellite constellation provides…
Mystery ‘whippet’ space explosion is the brightest of its kind
“The Whippet”, as imagined by the New Scientist picture deskNASA/muratart/Shutterstock/Adobe Stock A…
Ancient ‘weirdo’ reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence
Artist’s reconstruction of Sonselasuchus cedrus in its environment, 215 million years agoGabriel…
How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world
AlphaGo’s victory braodcast on TVIm Hun-jung/Yonhap/AP Photo via Getty Images In March…
The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
Lee Sedol faced AlphaGo in 2016AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon/Alamy The first time that…
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
Ocean warming has led to widespread bleaching of warm-water coralsSirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images…
The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on their feet
Falling cats seem to twist the front half of their body firstEvolve/Photoshot/ZUMAPRESS/Alamy…
How worried should you be about microplastics?
Alistair Berg/Getty Images Let’s start off with a fact: you do not,…
Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself
The Shahed 136 drone was invented by Iran and then copied by…
Ants capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into armour
Electron microscope image showing an ant with dolomite in its exoskeletonHongjie Li…
