<p>The hominins may have gone on adventures, but they lacked key skills of modern humans</p>
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Record-breaking heatwave hits US as Fourth of July holiday weekend gets underway.
Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event have been found in magma from a young volcano in the Indian Ocean
NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can give it a lifesaving boost
NASA awarded Rocket Lab deals for three dedicated launches using the company's Electron rocket.
Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to ensure their offspring have someone to play with
<p>People in the U.S. experience more, and more intense, heat waves than the Founding Fathers would have</p>
<p>New archaeology has uncovered everything from musket balls to wig curlers at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major clash of the American Revolution</p>
<p>The moon is Earth’s constant companion. But will that always be the case?</p>
<p>Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus</p>
A Nasa-funded robot has blasted off to catch a falling telescope in mid-orbit and blast it back to safety before it burns up.
Forecasters are warning of further extreme temperatures on the continent in the next few days.
<p>Trying to kill algae with chemicals is a common response when community ponds or other water features go green, but a freshwater ecologist says there may be safer and more effective solutions</p>
Eyemouth's gull ranger hopes for a more harmonious existence between gulls and humans.
Många patienter som får en ny höftkula/protes har problem med den. Med en ny typ av höftledsimplantat minskar risken för att höftkulan hoppar ur led efter operation med 70 procent. Det visar en ny studie som är gjord på 1 600 patienter på 44 sjukhus i Sverige och Storbritannien. Den nya protesen består av två ledkulor, en större som omsluter en mindre, och som därför kan ge bättre stabilitet.
Dead eels, sticklebacks, gudgeon and stone loach were discovered in a stretch of the River Pool.
Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories in Canada has won the New Scientist Editors Award at the Earth Photo 2026 competition
<p>The space agency has put out a call for its Moon & Mars Exploration Analog, which recreates the challenges of a long-duration space mission</p>
<p>Study suggests even light activity such as ironing could reduce health risks linked to prolonged sedentary behaviour</p><p>Sitting for longer than half an hour at a time each day raises the risk of dying from cancer, a study suggests.</p><p>Researchers who tracked more than 90,000 people over a decade found that sitting or lying down while awake for more than 30 minutes in one period each day was associated with an increased risk of cancer death. The risk increases for every additional hour of continuous inactivity, the findings suggest.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/02/sitting-minutes-cancer-death-risk-study">Continue reading...</a>
Samples collected at daring heights provide evidence for an untested theory of tree drought adaptation, while countering another.
It will be some months before the true toll of Europe's worst-ever heatwave is confirmed, but researchers can estimate a death count based on how many people died in Europe during previous hot periods
Simon King reports on the dangerous heat threatening North America.
Some areas may reach record temperatures over the long weekend.
It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.
The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space-time could present an answer