Science
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Mouse brain slices brought back to life after being frozen for a week
Reviving samples of mouse brain could bring us closer to freezing whole brains BSIP SA / Alamy Slices of mouse…
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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago
A model of Cheddar Man, a person who lived in Britain 10,000 years ago, based on analysis of his DNA…
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Virgin Money flusters chatbot, but just try living in Scunthorpe
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe…
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Dating apps should fix their problems before saddling us with new ones
From lawsuits to fumbled advertising campaigns, are we falling out of love with online dating? Recent Ofcom data showed a…
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Oil firms’ plans for net-zero oil extraction labelled as ‘PR spiel’
An oil drilling rig in California’s Central Valley Ashley Cooper / Alamy Fossil fuel companies are experimenting with using carbon…
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Between Two Rivers review: Exploring Mesopotamia, where the modern world began
The Great Ziggurat of Ur, in present‑day Iraq Mohammed Al ali/Alamy Between Two RiversMoudhy Al-Rashid (Hachette (UK, 20 February); W. W.…
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Competition opens to find the world’s most perplexing computer code
A 2011 entry to the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, designed to look like a manga character PGM/PPM images and…
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A whole new world of tiny beings challenges fundamental ideas of life
Theodor Diener had a problem. It was 1967, and he and a colleague had successfully isolated the infectious agent causing…
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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Illustration of the Jurassic bird Baminornis zhenghensis, showing the fossilised bones ZHAO Chuang A fossil from China that’s 150 million…
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How big is a neutrino? We're finally starting to get an answer
Our estimates of the size of a neutrino span from smaller than an atomic nucleus to as large as a…
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