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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 ...

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

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 ...

When politics and science align, it is easy to think science is apolitical. But the situation in the US today shows how ...

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

Feedback notes the proliferation of AI company logos, and agrees with one blogger's claim that many bear a striking ...

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...