When Lysenkoism threatened the US, some of us tried to stop it. Other doctors saw an opportunity to attract paid subscribers.

This sort of motion is common in galaxies sporting active central supermassive black holes, like the one in the nearby elliptical galaxy M87. Astronomers have measured motion in M87’s ejecta as rapid ...

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The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic novel The Dispossessed. In this extract from its opening, we get our first glimpse of the planet Anarres ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania brought quantum networking out of the lab and onto commercial fiber-optic cables using the same Internet Protocol (IP) ...

Archaeologists have previously discovered a handful of these dental additions in Mayan teenagers. However, a trio of recently examined, jade-adorned teeth are some of the youngest examples yet, ...

Climate change is affecting many industries and students need a basic understanding of the concept to succeed in those fields, experts say.

A mouth-watering new study has revealed exactly what the interior of Mars looks like - with scientists comparing the structure to a Rocky Road.

It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock ...

Tulsi Gabbard’s title of Director of National Intelligence becomes more ironic everyday. Gabbard reportedly shocked Central ...

The University System of Georgia wants professors' course syllabuses to be made public. Despite the rationale that it's about transparency, this seems like pure politics.

The claim is that when we eat certain foods - such as celery, cucumber, lettuce, melon and grapefruit - we burn more calories ...