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An audio drama produced by The Martian author Andy Weir, a fictional autobiography from Michael Moorcock and a new John ...

A woman developed a severe allergic reaction to an antibiotic in her partner's semen after sex, prompting clinicians to call ...

My lovely father died of Alzheimer's last year, and since then, I've been digging into the disease to try to understand what ...

From subconscious finger sniffing to rats driving cars, New Scientist staff have reported on many weird, wild or utterly ...