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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) may be caused by a lack of sunlight during the winter months. Its ...
Mice grown with rat brains to help study cross-spe...
Creating mice with partial rat brains helps scientists better understand whether synthesising embryo...
From Lex Luthor to Syndrome, five of sci-fi's best...
John Scalzi's new novel Starter Villain sees his hero inherit a villainous empire. Here, the science...
Five of sci-fi's best corporate villains, accordin...
John Scalzi's new novel Starter Villain sees his hero inherit a villainous empire. Here, the science...
Turtles that move in herds reveal the complex soci...
The hicatee turtles of Belize appear to move around in groups even when they aren't feeding, providi...
OSIRIS-REx is about to fling samples of the astero...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is about to hurtle past Earth, and if all goes well it will drop its sampl...
We can only predict star motion in the Milky Way’s...
Chaos in the interactions between stars near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole makes it imposs...
Europa’s underground ocean seems to have the carbo...
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have shown carbon dioxide on the surface of Jupiter...
Fish adapted to the deep sea 80 million years earl...
A set of unusual “trace” fossils in Italy reveal that fish were swimming in the deep ocean about 130...
The strange plant that just might be the worst sme...
Corpse flowers rarely bloom but if one does when you’re nearby you’ll know about it. Though many bot...
Last chance to see comet Nishimura before it vanis...
The comet Nishimura is heading away from the sun and on to the outer reaches of the solar system, so...
Exquisite spider fossils from Australia offer clue...
A large brush-footed trapdoor spider and a small jumping spider from the Miocene Epoch between 11 an...
NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal asteroid may reve...
The Psyche mission is scheduled to begin its journey to an asteroid of the same name on 5 October – ...
Net zero delay won't help when UK is already behin...
Cutting carbon emissions means replacing the heating systems in homes, transforming transport and gr...
New Scientist Live: What we are most looking forwa...
Here’s what members of the New Scientist editorial team are keenest to catch at the world’s greatest...
Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected ocean...
Dwarf planets aren’t expected to carry liquid water, but hints of surprising geological activity spo...
Young seabird couples get 'divorced' with little i...
Thick-billed murres normally mate for life, but young couples are more likely to break up, despite s...
Human noise pollution drives monkeys to rely on co...
Tamarins living near cities in the Amazon Rainforest use odour to communicate nearly twice as often ...
