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Meteorologists blame a stretched polar vortex, moisture, lack of sea ice for dangerous winter blast

Radio telescopes on the moon could let us observe dozens of black hole shadows

Unified framework sorts spacetime fluctuations for quantum-gravity experiments

Metal clumps in a quantum state: Physicists place thousands of sodium atoms in a 'Schrödinger's cat state'

Massive black hole mystery unlocked by researchers

Studying massive and mysterious young protostars with Hubble

Stunning images reveal the rich biodiversity of remotest Tanzania

We were wrong about being able to 'nudge' people to improve the world

The internet feels super lonely right now. Here's why

Peter F. Hamilton's latest is an epic slice of sci-fi – with one flaw

New Scientist recommends Avatar: Fire and Ash – especially the whale

New JWST images show Helix Nebula in astonishing clarity

Let's nitpick about the physics of Stranger Things, not its ending

How – and why – we chose the best 21 ideas of the 21st century

How to spot the lunar X and V

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

A massive cosmic ring may challenge a key assumption about the universe

Filming ICE is legal but exposes you to digital tracking. Here's how to minimize the risk

From ancient Rome to today, war-makers have talked constantly about peace

I research the harm that can come to teenagers on social media. I don't support a ban

Despite its steep environmental costs, AI might also help save the planet

Two-dimensional materials expand options for next-generation terahertz quantum devices

Scientists design molecules 'backward' to speed up discovery

US forests store record carbon as natural and human factors combine

Q&A: Wildfire in protected Northwest forests highlights need for strategy updates

Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest

A simple blood test mismatch linked to kidney failure and death

Chiral phonons create orbital current via their own magnetism

Grains of sand prove people—not glaciers—transported Stonehenge rocks

The hidden microbes that decide how sourdough tastes

Safeguarding the Winter Olympics-Paralympics against climate change

Rushing a major strategy announcement can be a mistake for new CEOs

EAST achieves new plasma confinement regime using small 3D magnetic perturbations

World's first high-resolution global leaf chlorophyll map can closely track plant health

Key protein can restore aging neural stem cells' ability to regenerate

Largest canine gut microbiome catalog reveals hundreds of new bacterial strains

How European city life is continually rewriting insect DNA

Scientists are building viruses from scratch to fight superbugs

Oldest cave art ever found discovered in Indonesia

Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

Oldest known rock art is a 68,000-year-old hand stencil with claws

Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

Bird retinas work without oxygen, and now scientists know how

World's oldest rock art holds clues to early human migration to Australia

Velocity gradients prove key to explaining large-scale magnetic field structure

Bird retinas function without oxygen—solving a centuries-old biological mystery

Critical Atlantic Ocean currents kept going during last ice age, microfossils suggest

2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus fossil expands early hominin range

Quantum-enabled proteins open a new frontier in biotechnology

This hand stencil in Indonesia is now the oldest known rock art