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

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance ...

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional ...

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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 ...

After a nap, people who entered the second stage of sleep were more likely to spot a solution to a problem than those who ...

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

There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US – it may have been a ...

A newly discovered species of dinosaur is now on display at London’s Natural History Museum . Researchers have named this new ...

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

Mice created using genetic material from two sperm cells have gone on to have offspring off their own, but the prospect of ...