Category: Science

Why has Facebook changed its name to Meta and what is t...

Facebook has rebranded itself as Meta in an attempt to own the metaverse, a concept for a 3D version of the internet that a number...

Tardigrades could survive interstellar travel in extrem...

The microscopic organisms have previously survived exposure to the vacuum of space and are able to hibernate using just 0.01 per c...

Ancient Roman statues discovered during HS2 high-speed ...

Two complete statues of a man and a woman, along with other Roman objects, were uncovered by archaeologists working on the planned...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot extends far deeper than we rea...

We only had a skin-deep look at Jupiter before the Juno spacecraft began orbiting the planet in 2016 and the measurements the NASA...

New human species has been named Homo bodoensis - but i...

Researchers who reanalysed ancient fossils say they come from a new group of hominins living in Africa around 600,000 years ago, a...

YouTube policy change limited spread of harmful videos ...

In 2019, YouTube altered its recommendation algorithm to stop promoting videos the company deemed harmful, which limited how much ...

UK urban areas are home to 250,000 unowned cats

It’s not easy to estimate the number of lost, abandoned or feral cats on UK streets, but with the help of citizen scientists we no...

Two people suppressed HIV for years while pausing medic...

A growing number of cases show that some people with HIV can avoid becoming ill even while pausing their medication, as virus leve...

Can Blue Origin help replace the International Space St...

Blue Origin is one of a number of firms hoping to build a commercial space station, but it isn't clear any will be ready before th...

China's new climate plan promises to peak CO2 emissions...

China is responsible for 27 per cent of global emissions, making its newly announced climate plan an important move ahead of the C...

'5D' storage could hold 10,000 times more data than a B...

An advanced version of the technology used to create DVDs and Blu-rays can store far more data, though it takes a while

Covid-19 news: Antidepressant reduces risk of long hosp...

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...

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