New Scientist
The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025...
From David Attenborough to Hannah Fry via Bryan Johnson, our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley selects he...
Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with ...
The acidity of drinks like Red Bull can erode dental enamel, but a lab experiment suggests this coul...
3D printing could enable a long-term treatment for...
Small, 3D-printed devices, designed to be implanted directly under the skin, could allow people with...
Quantum computers are surprisingly random – but th...
While randomising a deck of cards gets more difficult as you add more cards, it turns out that the s...
Do we grow new brain cells as adults? The answer s...
Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought ...
How vaccine recommendations have changed in the US...
The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in June to stop recommending certain kinds...
Weird 'harmless' microbes may play a pivotal role ...
Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one spec...
Prehistoric Spanish people transported 2-tonne sto...
An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, ind...
Nighttime light exposure linked to heart disease i...
Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep phys...
The foolproof way to win any lottery, according to...
How can you guarantee a huge payout from any lottery? Take a cue from combinatorics, and perhaps gat...
Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from al...
A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containe...
Emojis give your friends a better impression of yo...
Red heart or thumbs up? Sending emojis to close friends makes them see you as more attentive and lik...
Neanderthals had a 'fat factory' where they proces...
An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heate...
Fresh understanding of how mouths heal may lead to...
We have now learned why wounds in our mouth don't scar, which could lead to treatments that prevent ...
The Australia-Tuvalu climate migration treaty is a...
Australia has offered a lifeline to the people of Tuvalu, whose island is threatened by rising sea l...
New Horizons images enable first test of interstel...
By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculat...
Vegan cheese could be about to get a lot closer to...
A key milk protein for making cheese and yoghurt has been produced in bacteria for the first time, p...
An ancient Egyptian's complete genome has been rea...
The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient societ...
