On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our ...

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For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

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Complex systems, be they living beings or fundamental particles, need to have enough structure to hang together along with ...

Jessica Hamzelou was previously a New Scientist reporter focussing on health and medical science, with a particular interest in fertility, neuroscience and microbiology.

Intermittently inhaling a high dose of carbon dioxide seems to remove the proteins amyloid and tau, which are implicated in ...

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has ...

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Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that ...

Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to ...

Colin Barras is a science writer focusing on life sciences. He has a BSc in geology from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, a PhD on the Jurassic ...