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RADIATION STATION We already knew sending crewed missions to Mars would be dangerous. Now we know that it will blast them with horrifying doses of cosmic radiation. The silver lead lining: now at least we know exactly how much, so we can…

Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. <!-- Topic <!-- --> Within a decade of a massive die off due to a fungus commonly known as chytrid, the frog species left in El…

People who fall sick with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) face daunting odds. Only about two in three survive the illness, unlike people with drug-sensitive TB, of whom more than 90 percent survive. Part of the reason drug-resistant TB is…

Venomous reptiles, bugs and marine life have notorious reputations as dangerous, sometimes life-threatening creatures. But in a paper in the current issue of Science, first author Mandë Holford, an associate professor of chemistry and…

The 18th of March, 2018, was the day tech insiders had been dreading. That night, a new moon added almost no light to a poorly lit four-lane road in Tempe, Arizona, as a specially adapted Uber Volvo XC90 detected an object ahead. Part of…

The deadly Nipah virus and others like it assemble themselves in a much more haphazard manner than previously thought, new UBC research has found. The discovery could allow scientists to develop more effective vaccines and rule out many…

The perfect source for gaming uptodate news Shadow of the Tomb Raider arrives in less than a month, and Square Enix is keeping hype levels high with a steady stream of fresh footage from the game. First up, you can check out some of Lara…

Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have released a new short Shadow of the Tomb Raider trailer which shows off some of the game’s deadly tombs. Tombs were introduced in the original Tomb Raider reboot, and were also included in its sequel,…

A woman uses a fan as she stands along a street in Tokyo todayMARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty By New Scientist staff and Press AssociationJapan has experienced its highest temperature since records began as a deadly heatwave continued to grip…

It was May 17, 2009, and Astronaut Michael Massimino was lapping Earth at 18,000 miles an hour, sweating up his spacesuit as he struggled to fix the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. A stripped bolt was stopping him from removing a handrail to…