New Scientist
Thousands of genetic variants may influence smokin...
In a study of nearly 3.4 million people, almost 4000 genetic variants were linked to how much alcoho...
DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever re...
DNA bound to mineral particles in ancient sediment reveals that north Greenland once had spruce fore...
We’re rushing the use of psychedelics as medicine,...
Colorado has become the second US state to legalise psychedelic drugs for medicinal uses, but psyche...
Self-knowledge: How to know your true personality ...
When it comes to knowing yourself, your own perception of your personality doesn’t necessarily align...
Why you may never be able to buy your own self-dri...
Despite recent claims of vehicles having full automation, it is no more possible to buy a truly self...
Building blocks for life may be able to form in ra...
Amino acids have been found in meteorites, and now an experiment shows how they might have been crea...
The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting r...
Everyone needs great sleep, but this is tough in a world where other basic needs - like earning a li...
Ancient yeast used to brew the first lagers discov...
Lager originated in Europe but the wild yeast species that gives the beer its tang hasn’t been found...
Rare fossil reveals 'destroyer of shins' dinosaurs...
Damage to the spikes on the back of a fossil of a Zuul crurivastator suggest that these armoured din...
Venice may get a temporary respite from rising sea...
High winter sea levels in Venice are linked to warmer sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic...
What the world’s largest liquid mirror telescope m...
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope, perched high in the Himalayas, has finally started making...
Heat pump uses a loudspeaker and wet strips of pap...
A prototype heat pump that uses water and sound to cool is three times as efficient as previous comp...
A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax...
Honeyguide birds lead humans to bees’ nests and get beeswax as a reward, but camera traps reveal tha...
AI listens to toilet sounds to guess whether peopl...
An artificial intelligence that can detect diarrhoea with 98 per cent accuracy from recordings of to...
What we know so far about strep A child deaths in ...
Nobody knows for sure why more children than usual have died due to the group A streptococcus bacter...
Europe’s fastest supercomputer is now connected to...
A small quantum computer has been connected to Europe’s fastest supercomputer. This connection could...
Homo naledi may have used fire to cook and navigat...
Archaeologists say they have found evidence that Homo naledi, an extinct human species with a tiny b...
Adélie penguins show signs of self-awareness on th...
When shown their reflection, wild Adélie penguins can tell it isn't another penguin – but they may n...
