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No clear evidence that meditation or mindfulness m...
Commonly recommended ways to boost our mood – which can also include expressing gratitude or spendin...
Basking sharks are one of the few warm-blooded spe...
The ability to warm up parts of their body may help basking sharks migrate long distances and overco...
How to spot the 2023 Perseid meteor shower whereve...
The Perseids are a major meteor shower - here is your guide to spotting them in July and August 2023...
Lego robot used to make DNA structures for tiny ma...
A robot made of Lego can speed up and simplify building tiny structures out of DNA that could be use...
Ancient humans hunted animals by throwing a stick ...
Analysis of a wooden stick thought to be around 300,000 years old suggests it was designed to be thr...
Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and...
A strange star more than 1300 light years away appears to have two sides with completely different c...
Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how the...
We finally have a grasp on the many different ways of thinking and how your inner mindscape affects ...
Distant planet may be the first known to share its...
Exoplanet PDS 70b, a gas giant seven times the mass of Jupiter, appears to share an orbit with a bal...
Chronic constipation is associated with cognitive ...
A large study found that infrequent bowel movements are associated with a 73 per cent increased risk...
Alcoholic fruit may help plants recruit mammals to...
Measurements of alcohol levels in fruits collected in a Costa Rican forest reveal that those eaten b...
AI creates a realistic video of you dancing from a...
An artificial intelligence trained on TikTok videos could help you take part in dance trends without...
Exotic pentaquark particle found at CERN's Large H...
A new type of particle called the strange pentaquark has been found using the Large Hadron Collider....
Sheets of fungus could be used as eco-friendly fir...
Fungi can be pressed into thin sheets that resist fire by forming a protective char on the outside, ...
Space Week: A seven-day tour of the cosmos
To celebrate the launch of our new podcast, Dead Planets Society, New Scientist editors have selecte...
Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of w...
What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead Planets Society pod...
Brain scans are putting a major theory of consciou...
A proposed way to measure consciousness called integrated information theory has been tested using d...
Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs thre...
A small mammal from the Cretaceous Period appears to have been preserved by volcanic debris while at...
Placenta: The overlooked organ with a lifelong imp...
The placenta is an incredible organ that we grow for a short period of time, yet it has a surprising...
