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Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...

Spaghetti strands that are 200 times thinner than a human hair could be woven into bandages to help prevent infections ...

In the first hearing test of live baleen whales, the animals detected much higher frequency sounds than expected, forcing ...

Growing wood directly from stem cells could offer an alternative to cutting threatened hardwood trees, but it isn't clear if ...

Kazuo Ishiguro’s heartbreaking dystopian novel of young love and organ donation has been superbly adapted for the stage ...

New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their effect on the climate remains negligible ...

Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another pl ...

A new volcanic eruption has occurred on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula. It is the sixth in the region this year, according to ...