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Category: Science
How much less likely are you to spread covid-19 if you'...
Vaccination still greatly reduces the risk of infecting others despite the arrival of the delta variant, recent studies show
'It's anarchic': Ed Miliband on the reality of climate ...
Ed Miliband was the UK’s climate minister at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. He talks to Adam Vaughan about the anarchy tha...
‘It’s anarchic’: Ed Miliband on what COP climate talks ...
Ed Miliband was the UK’s climate minister at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. He talks to Adam Vaughan about the anarchy tha...
Meet the key players and big names at the COP26 climate...
John Kerry and the Queen are some of the biggest names expected to attend the COP26 climate summit
Wolf cubs raised by humans become attached to us like p...
Wolf cubs raised by humans become attached to people like puppies, suggesting ancient wolves could have become attached to Stone A...
How Finland plans to create a circular bioeconomy that ...
Finland wants to make everything from ceramics to medical devices and even satellites from wood, helping it to hit carbon neutrali...
Covid-19 news: UK's inaction is ‘wilfully negligent’, s...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Sperm quality has been declining for 16 years among men...
Data from 170,000 semen analyses performed in the US between 2005 and 2021 reveals a worrying decline in sperm quality
Lab-grown human mini-brains kept alive for a year by sl...
Human mini-brains grown in the lab soon die because oxygen and nutrients can’t penetrate to their core, but if they are sliced thi...
Dinosaurs lived in herds 40 million years earlier than ...
We thought large plant-eating dinosaurs began to herd about 150 million years ago, but now we know the behaviour goes back at leas...
Gun violence rose 30 per cent in the US during the covi...
Gun violence rose overall in the US during the covid-19 pandemic. The highest increase was seen in Minnesota, while Alaska had a d...
Female African elephants evolved to lose tusks due to i...
Poaching in Mozambique triggered female elephants in the country to evolve and lose their tusks – but the genetic mutations that c...