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Manatees or sea cows usually inhabit coastal waters, but rumour has it that some are hiding out in Upper Guinea. A scientific expedition goes in search of them

Last year saw a host of exciting galaxy-related discoveries, led by a study about a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud. What a time to be an astrophysicist, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

A new study reveals a vital brain-fat tissue feedback loop that plays a pivotal role in aging. The research identifies specific neurons in the hypothalamus that, when activated, signal the body's fat tissue to release en...

Researchers have begun to use magnets to entangle qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers. This simple technique could unlock complex capabilities.

In a novel study, the link between romantic love and the brain's behavioral activation system (BAS) has been explored for the first time. The study surveyed 1,556 young adults who identified themselves as being "in love,...

'We've never had this kind of look at an exploded star before.'

Photonics offers various advantages, including enablement of high-speed and low-loss communication by leveraging light properties in optical data communication, biomedical applications, automotive technology, and artific...

In one sense, self-driving cars are a venerable technology. They’ve been tested on public roads for over a decade. But for much of that time, trials were narrow and deliberate. Only in recent years has anything resembl...

If the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a portion of its fuselage while ascending after takeoff Friday had been flying at normal cruising altitude, its passengers and crew would probably have died from the depressurizatio...

An oxidizer leak has left the lunar lander stranded in space carrying human remains

Nearly three-quarters of hammer coral colonies annually alternate between male and female. They are the only animal species known to undergo this change on such a regular schedule

Søren Solkær's new collection of photographs shows starlings swooping as one in dramatic, cloud-like flocks

From Australia to the UK, the global shortage of science teachers will have a damaging effect on diversity and equity in science, says physics teacher Alom Shaha

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

Intriguing facts and forgotten history mingle in what is essentially Rebecca Boyle's love letter to the moon

Feedback continues investigating both the whereabouts and the usefulness of black holes, in the process uncovering new research suggesting the cosmic phenomena could be used as rechargeable batteries

Skoltech researchers have explained why very weak friction obeys different laws than those governing regular friction as we know it from school physics. Among other unexpected and counterintuitive features, the alternati...

Free charge carriers in perovskite solar cells likely have a special form of protection from recombination, researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich have discovered by means of innovative photoluminescence measurements.

Scientific research on how cats view us is mixed, but one thing is clear -- they don't adore us the way dogs do.

New research suggests that the risk of Europeans developing diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's stems from ancient human migrations.

Scientists pieced together the history of a huge Pacific plateau and found a complicated story.

An invasion of nomadic herders from the Eurasian steppe profoundly changed the genetic landscape of modern Europe, influencing patterns of modern diseases