A US courtroom experiment suggests a popular risk assessment algorithm makes harsher recommendations than human judges – ...

New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their effect on the climate remains negligible ...

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There is no evidence that advertisers use covert recordings of conversations to target people with adverts, an accusation ...

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...

In the first hearing test of live baleen whales, the animals detected much higher frequency sounds than expected, forcing ...

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating samples brought back to Earth ...

Kazuo Ishiguro’s heartbreaking dystopian novel of young love and organ donation has been superbly adapted for the stage ...

New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their effect on the climate remains negligible ...

Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another pl ...

Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research now shows it breaks down into a compound that may have negative health impacts ...

Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group now dates back 550 million years ...