What started as a newsletter service has since evolved into an all-purpose go-to platform for media start-ups and established ...

Guest-edited by Richard Avedon, Harper’s Bazaar’s April 1965 issue attempted to channel the frenetic energy of a transformative moment in history. It ended up offering a glimpse of the future.

Scientists have given a definitive answer on the age old debate of whether the chicken or the egg came first, and there ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

It sounds impossibly ’90s, and it was — Harriet the Spy play-fighting with the kid from Jerry Maguire, backstage at the 1997 ...

Chaser didn’t just learn the names of more than 1,000 objects—she also learned verbs, according to a USA Today article about ...

“[This] is a really good example of how a new data type could give more information on a certain class of compounds that may not be as well detected by the other data types.” However, Ewald noted that ...

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This is because your back has fewer touch-sensitive nerves there. The authors of this new preprint spotted a gap in the literature. “While tactile acuity has been extensively studied on the ...

Old Mutual is the 2018 No 1 Top Employer in South Africa and Ghana and remains the Industry Leader in Financial Services and Insurance. We have also been certified as a Top Employer in all the 13 ...

We know little about their lives because they roam in dark, cold waters, but it is thought they don’t reach sexual maturity until they are 150 years old and ... date with New Scientist events ...

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