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With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an ...

Rocks in some parts of the UK have the potential to produce natural hydrogen, but it remains unclear whether the gas is ...

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make taking X-rays and CT scans far ...

Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have ...

Restricting calories has been linked to living longer in many studies, and now it seems that the drug rapamycin has nearly ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...