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Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dys...
The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia t...
This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-r...
Elizabeth Hohmann is very interested in faeces, and spends her days sifting through stools to find t...
AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggr...
Interval cancers are aggressive tumours that grow during the interval after someone has been screene...
Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half t...
A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly...
Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warm...
Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the populati...
Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness o...
Adults with kidney cancer who received faecal microbiota transplants on top of their existing drugs ...
The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowa...
Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine whic...
Think of a card, any card – but make it science
Feedback has been informed about a "global telepathy study" which is currently taking place, but isn...
Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our w...
How much do you know about friction? Jennifer R. Vail's charming, if sometimes technical, "biography...
How your health is being commodified by social med...
From health tech developers to influencers, our health is being monetised – and we need to be aware ...
This virus infects most of us – but why do only so...
The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis...
Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we ...
Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to...
Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old...
A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on ma...
We're getting closer to growing a brain in a lab d...
Clumps of cells known as organoids are helping us to understand the brain, and the latest version co...
Most complex time crystal yet has been made inside...
Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd q...
Amazon is getting drier as deforestation shuts dow...
The amount of rainfall in the southern Amazon basin has declined by 8 to 11 per cent since 1980, lar...
To halt measles' resurgence we must fight the plag...
The measles vaccine has prevented 60 million deaths since 2000. So why are so many children around t...
Our brains play a surprising role in recovering fr...
A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuro...
