Protein is everywhere, but studies – mostly in non-human animals – suggest that limiting our intake could extend our lifespan ...
The total solar eclipse on 12 August will only be visible to a lucky few, but eclipses happen all over the world – here are ...
Set in an empty world after a superflu pandemic wipes out most of humanity, Peter Heller's The Dog Stars - the August read ...
Peter Heller is the author of the novels The Guide, The River, Celine, The Painter and The Dog Stars, as well as four non-fiction books, including Kook: What Surfing Taught Me Abo ...
We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost “ghost ancestor” inside us – and by putting all the different bits together, we ...
Genetic tests of mammoth remains have found a stark contrast in the sex ratio between sites where the animals died naturally ...
In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot Hig, ...
To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think ...
Jason Arunn Murugesu was previously a reporter at New Scientist. He covered the latest research in neuroscience with a particular interest in the structural inequalities built into science – whether ...
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