New Scientist
Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over...
Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems ...
Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lu...
The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally...
A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms ...
Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just...
The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists h...
We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not wh...
The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now...
Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we ...
Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique f...
Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may ne...
We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now re...
Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the ex...
Intermittent fasting probably doesn’t help with we...
Intermittent fasting appears to be no better than doing nothing when it comes to helping people who ...
These 5 diets could add years to your life even if...
Five dietary patterns that involve eating lots of plants have been linked with living up to three ye...
World’s oldest cold virus found in 18th-century wo...
Finding rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, in preserved medical specimens and analysing thei...
Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magn...
Simulations suggest that two enormous masses of hot rock have been involved in generating Earth’s ma...
Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures w...
Scientists may have stumbled across a network of vessels in the brain that helps clear out waste flu...
CAR T-cell therapy may slow neurodegenerative cond...
Immune cells in the brain that go rogue contribute to the death of neurons, so getting rid of them m...
Why self-expansion is the key to long-lasting love...
A growing body of psychological research shows that the best relationships – romantic or otherwise –...
RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be k...
Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an...
Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one...
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a d...
Endurance brain cells may determine how long you c...
The activity of certain neurons may influence our endurance for exercise, and these could be targete...
