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A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

A study into a spider species in which the females are prone to eat the males after sex is welcomed into Feedback's new ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...

Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have ...

It is uncanny how human fears about robots mirror those about immigrants. But maybe they aren't out to take our jobs or ...

When driving over hills, is it more fuel-efficient to accelerate downhill or maintain a steady speed? And why is our heart ...

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...

Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to ...

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Mice created using genetic material from two sperm cells have gone on to have offspring off their own, but the prospect of ...