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Do you need to fairly allocate players to teams, or sort out a pot of badly brew...

Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human except...

Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjus...

Is the future of education outside universities?

New technologies and academic funding cuts are upending the ways we learn today....

Finally wrangling with the complexity of female bodies ...

Medical research has long sought to gloss over the hormonal and chromosomal comp...

Breaking Bad showrunner uses sci-fi for smart dive into...

Vince Gilligan, the showrunner behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is back...

Strongest evidence yet that the Epstein-Barr virus caus...

Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, ...

Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are leve...

Global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to hit another record high in 20...

Why aren't young people having sex any more?

Sexual activity in young people is on the decline, but why? And what's more, sho...

Analysing Hitler's DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothin...

To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider s...

Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of c...

The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an ide...

The forgotten women of quantum physics

Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, a...

The 19 best Christmas gifts for science lovers (and nerds)

From microscopes to geodes, New Scientist staff share their top Christmas presen...

Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars with no ...

A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly form...

Oldest ever RNA sample recovered from woolly mammoth

RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gen...

Cuts and scrapes may be slower to heal in redheads

Mice with the same genetic variant that contributes towards red hair in people w...