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Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005 Dan Tuffs/Getty Images When I’m asked by a Le Guin neophyte where to start, I rarely recommend The Dispossessed. I wouldn’t urge a stranger …
Fossils found while building airport contain first mammoth DNA from tropical location
Two key gene variants may have made early domesticated horses more tame and more physically resilient to bearing a rider, researchers report August 28 in Science. The resulting horses were …
For decades, researchers around the world have searched for alternatives to iridium, an extremely rare, incredibly expensive metal used in the production of clean hydrogen fuels. Now, a powerful new …
The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster The New Scientist Book Club made a jump backwards through time for our latest read, Alex Foster’s …
Susan Monarez, who clashed with the U.S. health secretary over vaccine policy, refuses to step down
Toxic pollutants from a Southern California river are infiltrating the air. Polluted water surging along a turbulent section of the Tijuana River in San Diego can release toxic gases, including …
Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion …
Rain? Or shine? Why do the apps get it wrong so often? Rob Watkins/Alamy If you hung out laundry, visited a beach or fired up the barbecue this week, you …