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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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It is uncanny how human fears about robots mirror those about immigrants. But maybe they aren't out to take our jobs or ...

A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent ...

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Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

A study into a spider species in which the females are prone to eat the males after sex is welcomed into Feedback's new ...

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...

Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to ...

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