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A short-circuit at the world's largest proton smasher has indefinitely delayed the particle-hunting machine's planned restart, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Wednesday.

When I told Kit Parker of Harvard University to think about explaining what he does to teenagers who would be watching our Google Science Fair Hangout On Air earlier today, he had a great answer for... --

After scientists uncovered evidence of infidelity in Richard's family tree last year, they announced today (March 25) that they discovered more hints of daddy drama in the historical family.

A clinical trial has shown that the drug aducanumab slows cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's and reduces the amount of amyloid plaque in their brain

Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica flowed about 325 feet (100 meters) between March 3 and March 15, 2015.

A collection of coral reef rarities and giant specimens are poised to take centre stage in an exhibition opening this week at London's Natural History Museum

IT MIGHT sound strange to suggest that flu is, in any sense, a hereditary illness. Classic inherited diseases, such as sickle-cell anaemia and cystic fibrosis, are caused by broken genes that come from a sufferer's paren...

The number of new Ebola cases in West Africa last week was the lowest it has been in 2015, health officials said today.

It's been a long time coming, but this week NASA's Mars Opportunity rover completed the first-ever Martian marathon. After landing on the Red Planet in January 2004 on a mission originally planned to... --

Emergency crews who spent months clearing up after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York have higher rates of rheumatoid arthritis and lupus

By 2016, Icelandic genetics company deCODE will have data on half the country's population. Releasing the data will be controversial, but could save lives

Soon an Uber driver could wait outside your office as you leave your final meeting, alerted by your online calendar – but will automatic cab-hailing catch on?

The A320 is one of the safest planes around, but flight 4U 9525 descended inexplicably into the Alps until it crashed. New Scientist investigates the possible reasons

Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using only a single photon. The results, published today in the journal Nature, represent the l...

The Large Hadron Collider has got a short circuit, which could delay the monster machine's restart by weeks. Here are three possible fixes

NASA hopes Dawn mission can answer the big question: could life lurk in icy volcanoes on Ceres, the asteroid belt's biggest resident?

The physics of "cat-turning" has been a subject of fascination for hundreds of years, in part because a cat's almost uncanny ability to land on its feet seems, at first glance, to violate the conservation of angular mome...

Seals and sharks usually eat smaller fish, but striking images from South Africa suggest seals may be preying on sharks their own size

The lard-like molecules that showed up in Mars's Gale Crater are important for life, but could still be non-biological in origin

Children with autism may be more likely to have gastrointestinal symptoms early in life, compared to children without the condition, a new study suggests.

The American industrialist Henry Ford, regarding diminishing customer surveys on early cars, once famously quipped, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." What's...