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We sterilise spacecraft bound for Mars, but we can't sterilise humans. A mock Martian trek in the Arctic shows we won't need to, our microbes don't spread as we feared

Researchers have used ultra-short pulses of X-rays to film shock waves in diamonds. The study headed by DESY scientists opens up new possibilities for studying the properties of materials. Thanks to the extremely bright ...

The planet is crawling with tiny spies: Hidden undersea microphones, instrument-clad satellites and infrared cameras are listening, watching and smelling all the action on planet Earth, from a migrating whale to a meteor...

A baby dolphin sounds cute, right? What about a baby dolphin torn apart by hungry sharks?

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Pope Francis just released a long document on man's relationship to the Earth, but will his call for action on climate change have an impact?

Most animals wouldn't confront a fearsome predator like a lion. But through sophisticated group work, hyenas launch successful raids

Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Zürich and the University of Washington, have discovered two key strategies that enable Saharan silver an...

Religious dogma compromises Pope Francis's call for action on climate change by rejecting key solutions --

New greens suggest we shift to cities and focus on technology to reduce our land use and leave nature to heal. Let's not head for the hills, says Fred Pearce (full text available to subscribers)

New greens suggest we shift to cities and focus on technology to reduce our land use and leave nature to heal. Let's not head for the hills, says Fred Pearce (full text available to subscribers)

The moon is surrounded by a permanent dust cloud likely caused by comet particle collisions, new observations reveal. NASA's LADEE moon dust probe data suggests the lunar dust cloud that is different than that seen by as...

Oklahoma is not known for its earthquakes, but in recent years episodes of ground shaking have surged, with the U.S. Geological Survey releasing a rare warning last May saying the risk of a damaging earthquake in Oklahom...

Samples of confiscated illegal ivory should be taken before destroying stockpiles to allow forensic investigators to trace poaching and trafficking routes

Recently, Google's DeepMind--an artificial intelligence firm acquired for over $400 million in 2013--has been widely featured for demonstrations of an algorithm that teaches itself to play video games. In a paper, the......

In a public display against elephant poaching, U.S. officials will pulverize a huge store of illegal ivory tomorrow (June 19) in Times Square, in the heart of New York City.

Now that trans fat has been taken off the table, is there another highly concerning ingredient that should be banned next?

Native Americans are the closest living relatives of the Kennewick Man, an 8,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Washington State.

Genome evidence may have settled the ancestry of perhaps the most contentious skeleton ever unearthed in the US

From Superman poses to power tunes, plenty of tricks are claimed to bestow that all important self-assurance. New Scientist finds the truth behind the TED talk (full text available to subscribers)

Toddlers who see puppets steal from other puppets try to right the injustice by returning the stolen item, new research says.

Noether's theorem is a thread woven into the fabric of the science. We are able to understand the world because it is predictable. If we drop a rubber ball, it falls down rather than flying up. But more specifically: if ...