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Category: Science
Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under A...
In the Weddell Sea near Antarctica, scientists have found the largest colony of fish nests in the world, covering 240 square kilom...
Can electric fields help plants grow? New claims met wi...
Yields of peas grown exposed to an electric field generated by wind and rain were up 17.9 per cent, but is still remains unclear w...
What endemic means - and why covid-19 is nowhere near i...
The term "endemic" usually means that an infection is stable, not that it's less deadly or that protective measures are no longer ...
Strongest evidence yet that MS is caused by Epstein-Bar...
A huge study of US military personnel suggests almost all cases of multiple sclerosis are triggered by the common Epstein-Barr vir...
Animal decline is hurting plants' ability to adapt to c...
Declines in birds and mammals are hampering plants by curbing the dispersal of their seeds, in a "clear intersection of the biodiv...
Organic compounds on Mars were produced by water and ro...
Molecules containing carbon atoms, called organics, have been found all over Mars and could hypothetically have been formed by liv...
'Doomsday' shipwreck exposed by New Scientist finally b...
In 2004, my investigation into the bomb-laden wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery revealed the danger to people living nearby. Almo...
A West African writing system shows how letters evolve ...
The characters used to write the Vai script, which was invented in Liberia in 1833, have become visually simpler over time, reflec...
Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years...
Cut marks on animal bones suggest ancient hominins butchered them for their meat, and that they were first on the scene instead of...
Covid-19 news: Majority of people in Europe will soon c...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Saturn’s small moon Mimas may be hiding an impossible o...
Mimas doesn’t show any hints of liquid water, and it seems impossible that it could have an ocean under its surface, but that’s ex...
Overloaded memory chips generate truly random numbers f...
Random numbers – a vital part of encryption – are hard for computers to generate, but a new trick turns memory chips into a source...