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The most comprehensive study yet into IVF and autism finds no link, though some forms of IVF do carry a slightly higher risk of intellectual disability

Our window on the universe has shrunk dramatically with the dual demise of the planet-spotting COROT and the galaxy-hunting GALEX missions

Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, recently reported the finding of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an Oregon field--and nobody knows where it came from. This is of concern, especially to farmers, but r...

All the latest on newscientist.com: civic hackers, Arizona wildfires, explosive galaxies with mystery cosmic haze, Russian rocket goes wrong way and more

Thousands of years before flowers were cultivated, humans were using them to line the graves of their peers

NASA's Fermi probe has mapped the sky at gamma-ray wavelengths, revealing explosive galaxies plus a mystery haze that might be dark matter's signature

William Shatner gave it his best shot, but Pluto's fourth and fifth moons will instead keep up a Greco-Roman underworld theme

Where people go to get their morning-after fried-food fix. Whoops. You drank too much, and now it's the next morning and you need to find the highest concentration of chicken and waffles in the area or your body will sur...

Zapping red blood cells with a laser could generate ultrasound that would reveal the telltale shape changes of diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia

Cash-strapped governments are recruiting an army of unlikely helpers to boost public services with quick digital fixes, but are they the solution? (full text available to subscribers)

My life on the internet is worth surprisingly little cash. Earlier this year, cyber attacks were listed as America's top security threat. The internet is a dangerous place! While it's one thing to talk about hacking weap...

Find out how an artisanal distillery is using locally-sourced ingredients to craft liquors that support a legacy of small agricultural producers on a storied Wisconsin Island.

This is what 600 metric tons of rocket fuel looks like when it explodes. Early this morning, a Proton-M rocket launched by the Russian Federal Space Agency exploded a few seconds after taking off from Baikonur Cosmodrome...

Tiny fragments of plastic in the Atlantic Ocean have been colonised by microbes not found in open water

The stuff of the Terminator's cybernetic eyeball is taking shape in a Pentagon-funded lab. But this one's for humans

Nuclear bomb tests have opened doors in neuroscience

Following the tragic death of 19 firefighters in Arizona, New Scientist examines the dangerous science of protecting those who fight wildfires