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Can we genetically improve humans using George Chu...
Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutatio...
Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain dama...
Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and ...
Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision...
Reports suggest that Elon Musk is eyeing up a merger involving SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, but what does ...
Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid i...
Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and e...
The best new science fiction books of February 202...
We pick the sci-fi novels we’re most looking forward to reading this month, from a new Brandon Sande...
How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmar...
In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all ...
Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex r...
Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-ficti...
Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton
In this extract from the February read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet the protagonist of T...
Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dys...
The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia t...
This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-r...
Elizabeth Hohmann is very interested in faeces, and spends her days sifting through stools to find t...
AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggr...
Interval cancers are aggressive tumours that grow during the interval after someone has been screene...
Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half t...
A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly...
Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warm...
Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the populati...
Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness o...
Adults with kidney cancer who received faecal microbiota transplants on top of their existing drugs ...
The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowa...
Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine whic...
Think of a card, any card – but make it science
Feedback has been informed about a "global telepathy study" which is currently taking place, but isn...
Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our w...
How much do you know about friction? Jennifer R. Vail's charming, if sometimes technical, "biography...
How your health is being commodified by social med...
From health tech developers to influencers, our health is being monetised – and we need to be aware ...
