Trained pianists who hit a plateau improved their finger speed after a half-hour training session with a device that moves their fingers for them

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our hero wakes from years of space travel to a terrifying new reality

As apparent acts of sabotage cut undersea data cables around the world, NATO held its first demonstration of a project to quickly reroute crucial communications to satellite internet

NASA's former chief scientist, Jim Green, explains how close we are to having humans on Mars

After delays and false starts, Jeff Bezos's firm Blue Origin has reached orbit with its first launch of the New Glenn rocket, though attempts to land the first stage at sea were unsuccessful

An AI trained on motion capture recordings can help robots smoothly imitate human actions, such as dancing, walking and throwing punches

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At his best, Iain M. Banks could be extraordinarily stylish, inventive and downright funny. So how does his genre-redefining science fiction stand up to the test of time? Emily H. Wilson rereads the greats

From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. In its latest instalment, Rowan Hooper reveals how by 2029, we had learned how to make synthetic spider silk, leading to a revolution in clothing

The Chinese social media apps Red Note and Lemon8 have become popular alternatives for TikTok users ahead of a US government ban on TikTok. But government restrictions loom over those apps too

c-kit and IL-17A-expressing ILC2s in sputum from individuals with severe asthma exhibit features of both ILC2s and ILC3s.

Dysfunctional mitochondrial fusion in intestinal epithelial cells is linked to chronic inflammation and barrier failure in IBD.

Orthopedia regulates the transcription of melanocortin 4 receptor in hypothalamic neurons, and its disruption causes obesity in mice and humans.

An optimized macrophage-specific transfection strategy supports in vivo CRISPR editing of mRNAs to facilitate phagocytosis.

Xenon inhalation modulates microglial responses in mice and is a potential therapeutic agent for treating Alzheimer’s disease.

Lysosomal storage disorder mice show bowel transit defects and profound loss of enteric nervous system neurons that can be prevented by gene therapy.

A newly discovered neutron star is behaving so strangely that it may alter our understanding of the dense remains left behind when stellar objects die

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Two companies, Firefly Aerospace and ispace, are aiming to make the second and third successful private landings on the moon - and both are launching on the same Falcon 9 rocket