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Trace amounts of antidepressants washing into rivers and lakes could be making crayfish behave more boldly, and disturbing their ecosystems

The Scottish government is likely to postpone the planned move to the lowest level of coronavirus restrictions on 28 June for three weeks, the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has announced

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The world’s most powerful magnet, 280,000 times stronger than Earth's own magnetic field, is being shipped to France for installation in the core of the ITER fusion reactor

One of the companies behind a new, French-designed nuclear reactor at Taishan in Guangdong, China, has written to the US government warning of an “imminent radiological threat” at the plant, but there doesn't appear to be any danger

Being awestruck can bring a host of benefits from lowering stress to boosting creativity. But what exactly is awe, and how do we get more of it in our lives?

Dogs trained to alert owners when a seizure is imminent confused sweat from people with epilepsy with sweat from people who had been watching Stephen King's It

Exciting developments in mRNA vaccines, treatments for long covid and the safe use of artificial intelligence are just some of the topics you can learn about at New Scientist’s one-day event exploring the future of healthcare.

Models predicting a possible huge third wave of covid-19 cases and evidence that the delta variant of coronavirus increases hospitalisation risk are behind the decision to delay easing of lockdown in England

Our understanding of how domestication changes the neurobiology of a species may be wrong, results from a 60-year experiment to breed tame foxes suggest. The findings could also have implications for human evolution, claim researchers

Seahorses usually pair up into monogamous couples, but when females are kept apart from their male partners with a barrier that blocks odour they will mate with another male

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Clusters of galaxies in the universe are connected by colossal filaments that stretch across hundreds of millions of light years – and they seem to be spinning

A fundamental change to the second largest cryptocurrency to slash its carbon footprint by 99 per cent is just six to nine months away, says its creator

Countries that opted to eliminate covid-19 rather than reduce spread ended up wealthier and with less infringement on liberties - and it's not too late to adopt the strategy

At the centre of the Milky Way is an enormous bar of stars from which the spiral arms of the galaxy emanate, and its slowing rotation may help us understand dark matter

The rate of galaxies merging 2 billion years after the big bang is 5 to 10 times more than predicted by theories of modified Newtonian dynamics, and more in line with dark matter theories

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Netflix’s Awake tackles the nightmare world where no one can sleep. But how close is it to reality?

China has released the first batch of science images from its Zhurong Mars rover, following its successful landing on the Red Planet on 14 May