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Rebecca Skloot told the story of Henrietta Lacks and how her cells were taken without her permission in a bestselling book, ...

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NASA researcher Heidi Becker has photographed sublime sights around Jupiter that have never been seen before, from its ...

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Nysa was first spotted more than 150 years ago, but only now are we finally figuring out its weird shape and mysterious ...

There was unusual consensus amongst New Scientist Book Club members about our read for July, with readers falling over ...

Laser-scanning surveys reveal that the ancient Aquiry civilisation was bigger than previously thought, building tens of ...

A stunningly intact marine reptile named Austronaga minuta that lived around 245 million years ago may have looked like a ...

The cosmological principle is the foundation of modern cosmology – but its usefulness doesn’t necessarily make it true, says columnist Leah Crane ...

Steven Benner’s Meet The Neighbors is an intriguing tale of misunderstood planetary biochemistry. Paul Marks is engrossed ...