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Washing your clothing on high temperature cycles may not completely disinfect it, researchers have found, because washing ...

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

We should protect Earth's rivers and forests with laws. But it is another matter to recast them as actual life forms, as ...

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 ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

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

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 ...

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