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The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

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The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

A sheet of fabric that is three times stronger than Kevlar could stop a bullet despite being just 1.8 millimetres thick, ...

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From Claire North’s new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikovsky book, there’s lots to ...

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are exciting, but there is no reason to claim that they are evidence of alien spacecraft – ...

Palaeontologists have argued for decades over whether certain fossils are young Tyrannosaurus rex or another species entirely ...