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Research aiming to answer the great mystery of how consciousness arises is continuing to spark debate, with arguments over ...

There’s no doubt that doing some long-distance running improves our fitness, but at what point does it become too much, asks ...

Several recent scientific findings, including signs of life on an exoplanet and 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf have caused ...

The giant magnolia snail was thought to be extinct before living specimens were found in southern Vietnam in 2012. There are ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...

In his series The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson highlights the tension between an unfolding environmental ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...

Readers explain that a water droplet is subject to many invisible forces that cause it to snake down a windowpane ...

I was lucky enough to watch a preview of Ocean with David Attenborough recently. Due for cinema release globally on 8 May ...

It can be difficult to work out which books count as climate fiction. Emily H. Wilson reads the shortlist for the Climate ...