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I’m the first person whose life was saved by CRISP...
When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks lef...
US government wants to have a useful quantum compu...
The US government is trying to speed up the development of quantum computers so it can have one soon...
Childbirth for many primate species is even harder...
For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that...
Humans sleep the least of all apes – is it the sec...
Sleep is essential, yet humans have evolved to need so little of it. When evolutionary anthropologis...
Your menstrual cycle may affect how well vaccines ...
Women who were vaccinated against covid-19 in the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle reported hav...
Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe ...
Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effe...
I have a 100 per cent chance of getting cancer due...
A rare variant of a gene called TP53 means Tracy Hutchinson has an extreme risk of developing cancer...
Ancient human DNA found on cave art for the first ...
DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrati...
Read an extract from Slow Gods by Claire North
The New Scientist Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract...
Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending ...
Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusse...
Can video games help us better understand quantum ...
The world of quantum video games is vast – there are hundreds that are either inspired by quantum me...
Europe’s heatwave is the hottest and most humid ev...
The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years...
Can home batteries help save the climate and save ...
Growing numbers of homeowners are installing batteries that store electricity when it is cheap, whic...
We’ve uncovered a master gene that switches on hum...
We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results...
The race to understand how and when Thwaites glaci...
The loss of Antarctica’s doomsday glacier would transform our planet. Now scientists are revealing t...
Where, when and how to watch the 2026 solar eclips...
This August a total solar eclipse is set to be visible across parts of Europe, while a partial eclip...
If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you shou...
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we...
Record-breaking IBM chip uses trick to cram in 100...
IBM's latest chip packs in twice as many transistors as the current state-of-the-art chip by adding ...
