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Been curious about Tor but worried it's too complicated to use? Good news: The anonymity service is more accessible than ever.

As 2019 nears, physicists are hard at work on the next generation of dark matter detectors, and on parsing confusing data from detectors that already exist.

Last year was the search giant's first official appearance in years at the massive tech show. With round two, Google looks to make an even bigger splash.

Employees' responses to a survey in October were more positive than those in a poll conducted six months earlier.        

Ready to make 2019 the best year yet? Trying to stop biting your nails? Want to make time to meditate each day? Need to catch up on your reading? Whatever it may be, the start of a new year is a great time to start worki...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which has yielded the first close-up views of Pluto, was poised to ring in the new year by flying past the ancient icy object "Ultima Thule" some billions of miles away from Earth.

(University of Kentucky) In an editorial in CNS Spectrums, a neurologists takes the research community to task for its lack of minority representation in Phase III clinical trials for drugs to treat Multiple Sclerosis (M...

The New York Police Department plans to deploy around 7,000 police officers tonight for security in Times Square, as well as a drone that will monitor the festivities from the sky. This is a milestone occasion for the NY...

The US Department of Agriculture has announced the recall of more than 11,600lbs of pork and chicken sausages over the risk of contamination. According to the agency, it’s possible that bits of metal may have made its ...

James Clarke, of Intel's quantum computing research team, tells New Scientist about his ambitions to make the first device with a million qubits

A ground-breaking new study has succeeded in compiling an atlas of genetic factors associated with estimated bone mineral density (BMD), one of the most clinically relevant factors in diagnosing osteoporosis. The paper i...

For the first time, engineers have demonstrated an electronic device to closely monitor beating heart cells without affecting their behavior. A collaboration between the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Women's Medical Univers...

Chemotherapy is an effective treatment for breast cancer, yet some patients develop metastasis in spite of it. Researchers have now discovered that chemotherapy-treated mammary tumors produce small vesicles that may help...

By enticing away the repressors dampening unexpressed, silent genes in Streptomyces bacteria, researchers at the have unlocked several large gene clusters for new natural products. Since many antibiotics, anti-cancer age...

Scientists have used a combination of mathematical modeling, electrophysiology, and computer simulations to explain how cells communicate effectively in highly constricted spaces such as the olfactory cilia, where odor d...

After NASA's OSIRIS-REx arrived at asteroid Bennu in early December, its ground team quickly started measuring and mapping out the celestial body. They needed all the information they could get in order to enter Bennu's ...

NASA kicked off 2019 by scheduling a flyby of a planetary body beyond Pluto, but can't confirm the spacecraft made it until Tuesday morning.        

The phone Nokia fans have been waiting for is almost here, a new leak told us earlier this week without revealing any details about the upcoming Android One handset aside from its design and penta-lens rear-facing PureVi...

Astronauts in space have a busy New Year's Day of work ahead on the International Space Station. And they're not the only ones.

Malware comes in many forms. Bad links can lead to obnoxious adware that unleashes a plague of pop-ups. Nefarious attachments can hijack your processor for a bitcoin-mining botnet. Ryuk, a malware program believed to hav...

Farmed chickens often carry diseases like Campylobacter, which can cause food poisoning, but faecal transplants dramatically slow the spread of the bacteria

Horoscopes are a lot of fun for a lot of people and there some others who take them very seriously. There are a ton of horoscope apps (and free horoscope apps) on Android, but there are some that are just better. Here ar...