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DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make taking X-rays and CT scans far ...

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an ...

Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have ...

We have discovered legions of strange particles that seem to only have a ghostly existence inside materials. Even so, they ...

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A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies ...

Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton now be on display in ...

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