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With just one week to go until the world's greatest festival of ideas and discoveries, New Scientist editor Catherine...

The epilepsy medication sodium valproate is linked to developmental problems in fetuses, but lab studies may now have foun...

A traditional yogurt-making practice from south-eastern Europe uses live ants as a starter, with the insects providing the...

A computer simulation suggests that some collisions between exotic, hypothetical stars would make space-time ripple with d...

A monkey that performed poorly on vision tests did much better after having a stem cell transplant to patch up holes in it...

The first 18 satellites of a planned Chinese mega constellation are brighter than all but 500 stars in the sky, raising fe...