New Scientist Space - Cosmology

The last two years have seen unprecedented falls in the levels of sea ice around Antarctica, which serves as a protective wall for the continent's huge ice sheets. Researchers are now racing to understand the global impact of what could happen next

Our organs don't seem to age at the same rate, which could mean healthy habits are particularly important at certain times of our lives

Comparing historical heat extremes with climate simulations has revealed that in parts of the world the models are underestimating how extreme heatwaves are getting

Robotic equipment can implant electrodes into cockroaches and connect them to an electronic backpack, making it feasible to mass-produce biorobots for search missions

The Acidalia Planitia region of the Red Planet might have all the requirements for methane-burping bacteria to exist beneath the surface

Tiny robots designed to carry out environmental or industrial tasks could be powered by tricks involving surface tension

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived there at the same time about 1.5 million years ago

The content you see on social media is often determined by an algorithm - and it turns out that these algorithms can rapidly change your views

Determining when someone died based on their decomposing body is a subjective task, but artificial intelligence could bring some objectivity to the process

Feeling scared seems to reduce elevated levels of inflammation, which may help explain why some people enjoy a haunted attraction

Feeling scared seems to reduce elevated levels of inflammation, which may help explain why some people enjoy a haunted attraction

Three people in North America without known animal exposures have tested positive for the bird flu virus H5N1, and samples from two of them suggest the virus is adapting to humans

Rising carbon dioxide levels are driving an increase in the ocean’s acidity – and this change is sinking deeper as emissions increase, putting even more marine organisms at risk

Near Space Labs’s autonomous balloon fleet is already taking high-resolution images of the ground, and its range will expand to the entire continental US early next year

Want to protect your young plants from the ravages of slugs and snails? A classic gardening tip is to use crushed eggshells to discourage them. Shame it doesn't work, says James Wong

The climate crisis is shriveling lush oases in the desert, threatening precious ecosystems and ways of life

Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024

John "Bud" Benson Wilbur isn't often remembered today, but his ideas about what the distant-future world of 1977 would look like are inspirational, says Annalee Newitz

As two "feral and not trained" emus go on the lam in South Carolina, Feedback suggests that authorities read up on the war fought against wild emus by the Australians in 1932. They lost – but there may be some tips

The long history of robotics should teach us to be more sceptical when it comes to autonomous humanoid robots, says Nicole Kobie