New Scientist

A technique for alleviating pain has exposed cancer’s weak spot and may finally enable us to stop the disease by disabling the nerves that help it spread

HUMANS aren’t the only primate to have pushed their prey towards extinction. Monkeys have also over-exploited animals for food.

There’s a new particle in town, and it’s a double-charmingly heavy beast. Researchers working on the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have announced the discovery of the esoterically […]

Earth 4.4 billion years ago was flat and almost entirely covered in water with just a few small islands, new research suggests.

Trials of a new drug called verubecestat will give hope of a milder treatment. Administered as a pill, it switches off plaque production in the brain without side effects.

Screening an instructional monkey movie in a forest reveals that marmosets do not only learn from family members: they also copy on-screen strangers. It is the first time such a […]

Assumptions about the green colour of microscopic organisms have led to overestimates about their decline as oceans warm

In a century, Einstein’s theory has revolutionised our picture of the universe. We take a look at the pivotal moments in general relativity since Einstein presented his theory in 1915

The growth of a rat forelimb grown in the lab offers hope that one day amputees may receive fully functional, biological replacement limbs