Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control, which might help the cars recover from dangerous situations

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. It aims to conduct the launch as early as 18 November. Here’s everything we know so far

Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that could improve GPS accuracy and help track space weather

The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative aims to ease the suffering of those living with Long Covid.

Diverse mechanisms contribute to persistent symptoms after Lyme disease, and a holistic multidisciplinary approach is needed to optimize care.

Understanding postacute infection syndromes requires sex-specific research approaches.

A research agenda that studies Long Covid in the context of related conditions could transform our understanding of these disabling illnesses.

Understanding the drivers of pediatric Long Covid and MIS-C is essential for developing therapeutic interventions.

Understanding of the mechanisms of Long Covid has advanced because of human and animal model studies and clinical trials.

Animal models will inform our understanding of Long Covid and will aid in identifying therapeutic targets.

A multiomic analysis reveals sex differences and immune correlates of Long Covid symptom development, persistence, and resolution.

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station

AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – part of a huge simulation that could help make urban tree planting and trimming decisions

You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the Red Planet

An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables out of reusable building blocks

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic field

Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words "man" or "men" than "woman" or "women", raising fears of bias

Hollywood has been imagining the impact AI might have on our lives for decades, but how accurate are these portrayals?

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a possible shortcut for training robots faster and more accurately

In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing