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An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies ...

For nearly three decades, the International Space Station has been the only destination in low Earth orbit, but that will ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Modelling suggests both carbon taxes and green subsidies will be necessary to decarbonise the US economy, but the ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

Prudhoe Ice Dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause similar temperatures by 2100, ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

The US government is approving the drug leucovorin to address rising rates of autism, despite limited evidence that it works.

A galaxy cluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous ...