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Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time.
Very large hail – hailstones more than 5 centimetres in diameter – poses a growing threat to Europe as the climate warms, ...
When huge scientific discoveries are made, you may hear that they are “statistically significant” or pass a threshold called ...
Simulations suggest that an extraordinary jump in temperatures seen in 2023 and 2024 could simply be natural variability, ...
There are thousands of galaxies contained in this image, including a cluster that looks to us as it was when the universe was ...
Kevin Tracey's authoritative look at the vagus nerve and its healing potential is comprehensive and compelling, cutting ...
The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have ...
Feedback's proposal that the genome of the blue whale could be used to communicate the scale of large datasets is knocked ...
The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are ...
Combining sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation, the ancient “milpa” system of the Maya revealed ...
Cases of dementia doubled worldwide between 1990 and 2021, but more than quadrupled in China during the same period ...
Being able to quickly pinpoint the location of events such as landslides and pyroclastic flows will help rescue efforts, say ...