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Feedback is always on the lookout for better ways to measure things, and was delighted to learn how the weight of ice is quantified in Austin, Texas ...

We must find a balance between haste and getting mired in medical inertia ...

It's hard not to despair about the state of the world today, but here are five reasons to be a little bit hopeful, says Fred Pearce ...

We are told we need cynical strategies to "play" the dating game, but the science says this is totally wrong. David Robson enjoys an evidence-based takedown from psychologist Paul Eastwick ...

In George Saunders's Vigil, a ghost visits Earth to help a dying oil tycoon, while terraforming efforts on Mars are about to bear fruit in The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel. Emily H. Wilson's sci-fi column explores two very different short novels .. ...

There are huge benefits to ringing the changes when it comes to exercise, finds committed runner Grace Wade when she analyses the science ...

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week ...

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ancient DNA has uncovered the murky story of where these people came from ...

Biologists have long thought that speaking to nature's economic value would persuade boardrooms it was worth saving. It hasn't worked - so what, if anything, will?

A gene therapy that patients breathe in has been found to shrink lung tumours by inserting immune-boosting genes into surrounding cells ...