The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...

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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to know which of the quantum computers now in development have ...

The results indicate that having a wider pelvis reduces the risk of complications during birth, but results in slower walking ...

Most small-scale gold mining operations separate gold from ore by adding liquid mercury and then burning the mixture, ...

Dozens of trials testing GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide, the medicine in Ozempic and Wegovy, against a placebo suggest that ...

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...

Computers that use photons rather than electrons to manipulate data promise greater speed and energy efficiency, and the ...

An AI analysis finds that since the 1970s, speeches by US Congress members have shifted to favour language such as “fake news ...

Beekeepers often experience some seasonal losses, but this past winter, more than half of all US honeybee colonies died off, ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...