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Hunter-gatherers built a massive fish trap in Beli...
Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-sc...
Meteorite crystals show evidence of hot water on a...
A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor ...
Risk algorithm used widely in US courts is harsher...
When deciding whether to let people await trial at home or in jail, US judges can use a risk score a...
Bacteria found in asteroid sample – but they're no...
The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is ...
Crushed rocks outpace giant fans in race to remove...
New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their eff...
Stunning Never Let Me Go stage version asks the bi...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s heartbreaking dystopian novel of young love and organ donation has been superbly ad...
Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficu...
Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and...
Majority of people believe their devices spy on th...
There is no evidence that advertisers use covert recordings of conversations to target people with a...
What to know about creatine, the gym supplement wi...
Creatine is commonly associated with athletes and bodybuilders, but the popular supplement seems to ...
Common chemical in drinking water hasn't been test...
Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research no...
Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders...
Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal...
Chimpanzees seem to get more technologically advan...
Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, pr...
Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultra...
In the first hearing test of live baleen whales, the animals detected much higher frequency sounds t...
World's thinnest spaghetti won't please gourmands ...
Spaghetti strands that are 200 times thinner than a human hair could be woven into bandages to help ...
A sliver of lab-grown wood has been made from stem...
Growing wood directly from stem cells could offer an alternative to cutting threatened hardwood tree...
We've taken a photo of a star in another galaxy fo...
Using four telescopes linked together, astronomers have captured an astonishing image of a huge star...
Nectar-loving Ethiopian wolves may be the first ca...
Endangered Ethiopian wolves feed on the nectar of red hot poker plants, and may transport pollen fro...
Super-bright black holes could reveal if the unive...
Space-time may not be continuous but instead made up of many discrete bits – and we may be able to s...
