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Parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their qu...
Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least ...
The vital, overlooked role of body fat in shaping ...
The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood i...
Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve cru...
Greenland’s melt is expected to slow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but research s...
Cuts and scrapes may be slower to heal in redheads...
Mice with the same genetic variant that contributes towards red hair in people were slower to recove...
Oldest ever RNA sample recovered from woolly mammo...
RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an ani...
Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars wit...
A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly forming stars, and new o...
The 19 best Christmas gifts for science lovers (an...
From microscopes to geodes, New Scientist staff share their top Christmas present ideas in a gift gu...
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics wa...
Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image...
The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people liv...
Sequencing Hitler's genome teaches us nothing usef...
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historic...
Analysing Hitler's DNA for a TV gimmick tells us n...
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historic...
Why aren't young people having sex any more?
Sexual activity in young people is on the decline, but why? And what's more, should we be worried ab...
Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are...
Global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to hit another record high in 2025, but China’s carb...
Strongest evidence yet that the Epstein-Barr virus...
Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, bu...
Sex could help wounds heal faster by reducing stre...
Mild wounds healed faster if people took a spray containing the "love hormone" oxytocin and set asid...
Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light...
A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions...
Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the ...
When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate th...
Chemical computer can recognise patterns and perfo...
Previous attempts at building a chemical computer have been too simple, too rigid or too hard to sca...
