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British scientists have been successful in creating primitive forms of artificial sperms and eggs from human skin cells, marking an achievement that could not only transform the understanding of age- and sex-related dise...

In a new paper accepted by the journal Astroparticle Physics, Robert Ehrlich, a recently retired physicist from George Mason University, claims that the neutrino is very likely a tachyon or faster-than-light particle. Th...

India's capital New Delhi recorded its first swine flu death this winter when a 51-year-old woman died from the disease at a local hospital, media reports said Friday.

Hot, tired brains and an excess of stress hormones. Could these be the reasons why we yawn, asks neuroscientist Simon Thompson (full text available to subscribers)

Even though we’re in the middle of the holidays, a number of great articles have been written in an effort to sum up the tech progress of 2014. Although we’re awash in “Top...

In this video story, learn how coastal communities in California are vulnerable to massive, potentially deadly tsunamis.

As the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami approaches on Dec. 26, greatly expanded networks of seismic monitors and ocean buoys are on alert for the next killer wave.

The sun dazzled like a Christmas tree in hues of reds, greens and blues in its first-ever portrait taken in high-energy X-rays this week. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, was built in 2012, chiefl...

Digging up fascinating and unlikely facts is all in a day's work for Stephen Fry's little helpers. But how do they do it? New Scientist visited their workshop (full text available to subscribers)