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With the region struggling to recover from superstorm Sandy, residents must now prepare for a dangerous nor'easter

If the cells of blind mole rats start to multiply too fast, they automatically commit mass suicide, ensuring the animal never gets cancer

Anaesthetics appear to shut down long distance communication in the brain, while preserving local chatter

Plummeting prices, trade war, record growth – it’s been a busy year for the solar industry. Reporter Lauren Sommer talks to a solar analyst about how California is doing in the rapidly changing global marke...

A task force commissioned by Florida Governor Rick Scott has an idea that the state will be putting to a vote soon: Giving a tuition discount to students majoring in STEM fields. Part of a college overhaul in the state, ...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: how the ice age ended, Mars methane mystery, time for US to bury its power cables, and more

A study in monkeys suggests that boys left infertile after chemotherapy may one day reproduce naturally after an injection of sperm stem cells

The latest in smart limb technology went on public display for the first time Nov. 4. A man with a mind-controlled bionic leg climbed to the top of Chicago’s famous Sears Willis Tower Sunday, part of a charity sta...

Wondering who will win the election tomorrow? Watch an animation that shows why we can't make perfect predictions.

Electrical outage after outage follows the storms that strike the US north-east – a consensus is building for moving overhead power lines underground

Short on arable land? One solution would be to plant…up. Singapore, a small country that imports most of its food, has now begun selling vegetables from its first vertical farm. And even while they’re more e...

A drug developed to treat leukaemia has outperformed current drugs for MS, reducing brain lesions by 50 per cent and halting accelerated brain shrinkage

A new test could provide a way for women to detect breast cancer much earlier than is possible with mammograms or even MRI. And the best part is, it’s as easy as wearing a sports bra. The high-tech undergarment, F...

A San Francisco ballot could lead to Hetch Hetchy reservoir being drained and restored to a wilderness to match its iconic neighbour

Just 20,000 years ago, ice ruled the planet. So why did it relax its grip? Finally, it looks like the answers are in (full text available to subscribers)

It's a still image that is more about time than space – this picture has not been manipulated or Photoshopped: it's simply a different way of looking at the world

Photographer David Liittschwager used a green cage measuring 1 cubic foot to introduce random sampling into his documentation of six fragile ecosystems