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From a warrior's tomb in Greece to a Dead Sea Scrolls cave, here are some of the biggest archaeological discoveries likely to come in 2018.

Our annual vows to ditch bad habits rarely manage to change behaviour, but why? Frank Swain examines how to make a new you in 2017

The field of artificial intelligence goes back a long way, but many consider it was officially born when a group of scientists at Dartmouth College got together for a summer, back in 1956. Computers had, over the last fe...

Less liver fat, cholesterol and weight - just some of the benefits that New Scientist staff enjoyed in a pioneering study into a month's alcohol abstinence

(Rothamsted Research) Poorly nourished communities in the developed West will benefit from one of the most ambitious programs to provide lasting improvements in nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. The program begins today w...

(University of California - Santa Cruz) Young galaxies blaze with bright new stars forming at a rapid rate, but star formation eventually shuts down as a galaxy evolves. A new study, published Jan. 1, 2018, in Nature, sh...

(Babraham Institute) Keeping egg cells in stasis during childhood is a key part of female fertility. New research sheds light on the role of epigenetics in placing egg cells into stasis through childhood. A team from Cam...

(Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) Metalenses -- flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light -- promise to revolutionize optics by replacing the bulky, curved lenses currently u...