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Four-fifths of the world's population now live in ...

A comprehensive UN report has found that cities and towns are home to 81 per cent of the world’s pop...

We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the S...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing ...

Mathematicians say Google's AI tools are superchar...

AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a sca...

What is cloud seeding and could it end the drought...

Facing its worst drought in decades, Iran is attempting to stimulate rain by spreading seeding agent...

Vast Bronze Age city discovered in the plains of K...

A major settlement in Central Asia called Semiyarka dating back to 1600 BC had houses, a big central...

Ancient figurine may show sexual encounter between...

A 12,000-year-old clay sculpture found in Israel depicts a goose on the back of a woman, and archaeo...

Neanderthals' hefty noses weren’t well adapted to ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold,...

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...