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Tamara Hew-Butler is a podiatric physician and sports scientist. She is an adjunct professor of Nutrition and Food Science at ...

National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly available, but fears of ...

Should you really be drinking eight glasses of water a day? What about reaching for a sports drink after exercise?

An infestation of caterpillars can make an oak tree postpone when it opens its leaves next year by three days, wrong-footing ...

With progress at COP climate meetings stalling, 57 countries took part in the first of a new series of conferences aiming to ...

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, reveals how a book that was originally intended to be ...

In this extract from Luminous, the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet a mysterious robot discovered in a ...

Silvia Park grew up in Seoul and splits their time between Korea and America. Luminous is their first novel.