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Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the ...

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To mark David Attenborough turning 100, New Scientist staff have been set a tricky task: pick your favourite of his many ...

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A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are down to polyphenols and ...

If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up a drastic ...

An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders of a strange stalagmite ...

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