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UK's Online Safety Bill to become law, but can it ...
After years of political wrangling, wide-ranging online rules are about to become UK law - but compl...
Vaccine that erases immune memory may help treat m...
An experimental vaccine that erases the immune system’s memory of a molecule could be used to stop a...
The entire brain may be involved in language, not ...
Brain regions identified as “language centres” are actually hubs that coordinate the processing of l...
Watch a cyborg cockroach navigate a maze
Remote-controlled cockroaches are not a new idea, but now researchers have found a way to steer the ...
Stick insects that are normally asexual may occasi...
Some animals reproduce asexually by creating embryos from unfertilised eggs, but this can lead to a ...
Extinct Tasmanian tiger yields RNA secrets that co...
RNA, which regulates the activity of DNA, is a crucial part of building an organism - and now resear...
Theory of consciousness branded 'pseudoscience' by...
A leading theory about consciousness called the integrated information theory has been attacked in a...
Rare Australian pink diamonds emerged when a super...
Understanding how the world’s largest-known collection of pink diamonds came to the surface in Austr...
DeepMind AI can predict if DNA mutations are likel...
By working out which small mutations will probably be damaging, DeepMind’s AlphaMissense system coul...
Catastrophic Libyan dam collapse partly caused by ...
Recent extreme rainfall that caused flooding across the Mediterranean and contributed to the catastr...
The seismic shift in attitudes toward cannabis exp...
As popular discussion of cannabis has moved away from the drug trade and toward potential medical ap...
Rare mutation hints gene editing could prevent Alz...
Two people with a mutant version of a gene variant – APOE4 – linked to Alzheimer’s showed no signs o...
We now know how many cells there are in the human ...
New estimates for the number of cells in adults and children draw on over 1500 scientific papers det...
Kidneys for transplantation could come from babies...
Organ donation from newborn babies currently happens very rarely, but could save more lives if hospi...
Spinal fluid test may enable earlier diagnosis of ...
People with Parkinson’s disease have been found to have high levels of an enzyme called DOPA decarbo...
How scientists are cracking historical codes to re...
Deciphering encrypted messages from centuries past is a painstaking process. But linguists and compu...
The world’s brightest X-ray machine has been turne...
The LCLS-II X-ray laser is unprecedentedly bright, and will make it possible to record exactly what ...
What you need to know about the 2023 covid-19 boos...
New Scientist explains how the latest covid-19 booster vaccines are different from previous ones, an...
