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At long last, we have pinned down the size of a proton. More than 15 years after an experiment unexpectedly shook the world of particle physics, researchers are regaining their grip on one of this ...

Computers that use light rather than electricity to represent and manipulate data could slash the power demands of data centres and simultaneously speed up calculations. Two studies published today ...

Unlike most modern mammals, which get just two sets of teeth in their lifetime, an ancient species from the Cretaceous, found ...

In the opening to Emily St. John Mandel's new novel Exit Party, the October read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are ...

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times ...

Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A ...

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

To succeed at scale, quantum computing must differentiate itself from AI, says columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan. But the ...

The mainstream view is that there are no particularly crucial phases in the development of the immune system, but a study of hundreds of infants suggests otherwise ...

A small hoard of medieval English coins found near the Vatican in Rome suggests that early English residents held a ...

Dried amniotic membranes from donated placentas can be wrapped around delicate nerves during prostate cancer surgery to ...