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DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that ...

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing ...

By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly even some conscious ...

A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD explains the sharp rise ...

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Neurologist Emily Rogalski studies "superagers" – people in their 80s or 90s with unusually ...

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully ...

Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is frozen forever might not ...

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how ...