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SpaceX has announced plans to safely land both Starship and its booster stage in its next test flight. Success would show that the company's ambitions to build extremely powerful but reusable spacecraft are bearing fruit.

Researchers have tested a system that improves on BMI for identfying those with obesity. The system can identify those who would benefit from treatment, and those who don't require intervention.

The Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of a black hole in 2019, but some were sceptical about the methods used. An independent check has confirmed that the image – and general relativity – still stand.

After waking with the feeling of a shadowy presence pressing on his chest, neuroscientist Baland Jalal went on to study sleep paralysis. He explains what this frightening condition might reveal about consciousness

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the most distant human-made object from Earth. What it saw on its 50-year journey to the edge of the solar system revolutionised our understanding of the planets and ourselves.

Correcting quantum computer errors is key for making the devices practical. But some types of errors may be more likely to occur than we had thought.

For centuries, scientists neglected the lymphatic system – mainly because it is extremely elusive and incredibly delicate, making it hard to study. When they did finally start to explore it, they discovered the profound role the system plays in health and illness. Now, researchers are harnessing the powers of this mysterious network to help combat a range of conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and cancer.

The world will need to quadruple its pace on electrification to meet the target being pushed by the COP31 presidency this week, but increasingly affordable renewable energy could put the goal within reach.

The literary world has long been reluctant to allow science fiction works into the starry ranks of literary fiction. Will M. John Harrison’s landmark win for The End of Everything finally change that?

Carbon dioxide emissions are projected to fall 0.4 per cent this year, driven in part by higher oil prices resulting from disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

If you’re trying to stick to the paleo diet, you really should be eating insects. Columnist Michael Marshall finds new research that suggests ancient humans dined on more insects that we previously thought

Cold therapy may be worse than doing nothing for post-exercise muscle recovery. A study finds cold baths actually prolong signs of muscle damage.

A newly described insect may spend its whole life on a spider's web. The tiny bug seems to follow the spider around, feeding on the scraps it leaves behind when it eats.

Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein says understanding neutrinos is one of the most pressing scientific issues in physics. She shares the latest neutrino discoveries that are exciting her and that could bring us new insights about the galactic centre.

A gene on the X chromosome called ZFX exerts powerful effects on an entire network of genes linked to autism. Females express two copies of ZFX, which may help explain why they are less likely to develop the condition.

More than 300,000 years ago, hominins in Britain were crafting huge, skilfully shaped handaxes whose primary purpose may have been for showing off.

A type of turbulence that only exists in the quantum realm has been directly observed for the first time.

Feedback notes with weary inevitability that a 50th anniversary edition of Richard Dawkins's classic work features a double-helix twisting the wrong way – not for the first time.

Mid-latitude regions such as Europe are set to suffer more intense heatwaves than previously thought, according to new research that has uncovered a three-way feedback loop that amplifies extreme heat conditions.