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The government says its plan to launch a new science funding scheme has not changed, but a new prime minister...

Astronomers and space fans have been waiting years for this moment: The James Webb Space Telescope team has finally made...

Figures from the European Heat Pump Association indicate the UK was bottom of a list of more than 20 European...

Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to Covid Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update...

“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,” wrote LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) in...

Cold-brew coffee is on the rise. Enthusiasts say it has a smoother, less acidic taste and new research backs this...

The first science image from the James Webb Space Telescope, presented by US president Joe Biden on 11 July, is...

Lee Billings: This is the picture we've all been waiting for the deepest image of the cosmos ever captured. Humanity...

Humans are sending ever more rockets up into space – bits of them falling back to Earth could result in...

By Sabine Hossenfelder Russell Knightley/Science Photo Library The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month,...

Sunlight hitting the skin seems to boost secretion of an appetite-boosting hormone in men, causing them to eat more in...

“Give me a telescope, and I can come up with something good to do with it,” says Jane Rigby, an...

An algorithm created by AI firm DeepMind can distinguish between videos in which objects obey the laws of physics and...

If I drop a pen, you know that it won’t hover in midair but will fall to the floor. Similarly,...

A gentle fantasy about a lonely inventor called Brian, whose world changes completely when a robot he creates comes to...

Two and a half years into the COVID pandemic, the numbers are grim. While 80% of people living in the...