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A Mississippi State University scientist has discovered a hopping treasure trove—16 new species of grasshoppers living in the ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...

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It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

About monstrous experiments of the CIA and the covert use of humans as test subjectsTerrifying documents have been declassified in ...

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Turing patterns offer insight into (among other things) the patterns we find on animals, whether it’s the splotches on ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.