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An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Whenever we go online, we might find ourselves part of an experiment — without knowing it. Digital platforms track what users ...

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Hannah joined The Scientist as an assistant editor in 2023. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington in 2017 and completed the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism in ...

Below are details of the Lab components and some strategies to get you started. This activity gives you direct access to the types of data, imagery, and tools scientists use to investigate ...

Could we be trapped inside a simulated reality, rather than the physical universe we usually assume? It's a tantalizing theory, long theorized by philosophers and popularized by the 1999 ...

suggesting that there were multiple levels of deception in this iconic experiment. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and ...

A multi-institutional group of researchers led by the Hubrecht Institute and Roche's Institute of Human Biology has developed strategies to identify regulators of intestinal hormone secretion.

Jennifer Shen – former director of the police department crime lab in San Diego, California – emphasizes that forensic science is "first and foremost, a science" and notes that a person needs ...

Your support makes all the difference. Scientists who question the validity of animal experiments are warning that medical progress is being held back because they are being “frozen out” by ...

Teachers were also concerned that multiple students sharing the experiment tools could also allow the novel coronavirus to spread. As a result, it was decided that science experiments should be ...