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The rim rock crowned snake is the rarest snake in North America. And now there's one less, after a snake was found dead with a centipede stuck in its throat.

All magnets--from the simple souvenirs hanging on your refrigerator to the disks that give your computer memory to the powerful versions used in research labs--contain spinning quasiparticles called magnons. The directio...

On-chip laser frequency combs--lasers that emit multiple frequencies or colors of light simultaneously separated like the tooth on a comb--are a promising technology for a range of applications including environmental mo...

Strange planets nicknamed BEASTies are unlikely to have formed around their stars like most worlds, so they may have been stolen from other stars or captured from deep space

The design of efficient solar cells, which harness energy to generate electricity or produce hydrogen by splitting water, has received much attention globally. Another route to harnessing abundant, free solar energy: usi...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis recently invented a technique for generating ultrasound waves that can self-bend, like the rainbow.

Researchers have developed a camera that uses a thin microlens array and new image processing algorithms to capture 3D information about objects in a scene with a single exposure. The camera could be useful for a variety...

Determining the structure of vitronectin, a protein implicated in age-related macular degeneration and some neurodegenerative disorders, and using pressure to alter the protein shape may help in the development of new tr...

Fat entering the intestines triggers a signal that is conducted across the neurons and to the brain, driving the desire for fatty foods.

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

Escape, a thoughtful book by Marie Le Conte, recalls a time when people tended to organise themselves into small communities around blogs and other online hangouts. Should we go back?

Half a century after the last person walked on the moon, original footage has been digitally overhauled to show NASA's lunar missions in a new light

Paul de Gelder's Shark and David Shiffman's Why Sharks Matter aim to turn the all-too-common public panic about the predator into interest in their conservation

A new find in Borneo puts the advent of surgery back by almost 24,000 years

Venus is being hammered by wild space weather this week after a giant sunspot, not visible from Earth, expelled an enormous plasma burst toward the scorching-hot planet.

A 31,000-year-old skeleton found in Borneo reveals the first example of an amputation on a human being.

A new imaging technique can reveal tiny protein structures like never before

Crystals doped with rare-earth (RE) ions exhibit very narrow linewidths of optical transitions. The narrow-line spectra of triply ionized RE elements cover the entire visible and infrared range. RE-doped materials are wi...

Today, an international team of researchers led by Séamus Davis, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and University College Cork, has announced results that reveal the atomic mechanism behind high-temperatu...

By adapting a flow-following physical framework to the statistical modeling of large spatio-temporal datasets, KAUST researchers have developed a more robust and realistic general method for dealing with wind-driven phen...

A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China has developed an ultrafast optoelectronic switch using a Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons. They published their work in the journal Physical Rev...

Researchers have entangled atomic clocks allowing them to synchronise them more accurately. Such entangled clocks could be used study dark matter and gravity more precisely