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Richard Fisher is a senior journalist at the BBC, the author of a non-fiction book called The Long View, and a lecturer in science communication at University College London. He is also a speaker, ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

Tests with rodents suggest an mRNA vaccine in development offers protection against three strains of Ebola virus, including the one behind the current crisis ...

We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're ...

Maui in Hawaii experienced some of the worst wildfires in US history in 2023. Amid concerns of a PTSD epidemic, flotation ...

Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria in remote Indigenous communities in Australia ...

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, 'Luminous' on emotional artificial intelligence, our ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Annalee Newitz is a science journalist and author. Their novel Autonomous won the Lambda Literary Award and they are the ...

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed as a monumental moment for AI in mathematics ...

Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling for this "epic dreaming" to be classed as a sleep disorder ...