In this tricky comic thriller, a female American secret agent infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental terrorists ...

In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, ...

This important study shows that in teleost fish, the RIG-I-like protein MDA5 can compensate for the absence of RIG-I by detecting 5'-triphosphorylated RNA. A fish virus containing such RNA can ...

Fossilised megalodon vertebrae about the size of a dinner plate have also been found. 'There is also a megalodon fossil found in Peru that apparently has the braincase and all the teeth, with a small ...