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Comment New Scientist talks to actor Mark Rylance, writer Stephen Brown and director Tom Morris about their new play Dr...

Environment Falling oxygen levels caused by sewage and hot weather saw a specialised boat deployed for 11 days in August...

Life More than 50,000 dead butterflies were traded on eBay in a one-year period, including endangered species protected by international...

Space Astronomers have found a blast of gamma rays from space that seems to have been caused by two stellar...

“Blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!”—William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1610-1611 One Sunday in August 1635, the Mather...

Some years ago, David Watts was mingling with the wild chimpanzees of Uganda’s Kibale National Park, the Ngogo, the largest...

You’re oscillating. Well, technically, not just you. We are all being stretched and squeezed by an event we can’t see—at...

AnimalsMillions of the bugs, native to the U.S. West, are blanketing sidewalks and devouring vegetation.ByLiz LangleyPublished June 22, 2023• 5...

Andre Rucker for Popular Science Allow us to pump you up with these muscle science stories. By Annie Colbert |...

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