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Go-to migraine drug actually does nothing to relie...
The drug rizatriptan is often recommended for vestibular migraines, which cause vertigo as well as h...
The bold attempt to solve the toughest mystery at ...
Finding out whether gravity – and therefore space-time itself – is quantum in nature has long been t...
How humans survived a global climate catastrophe 8...
Plummeting temperatures forced some human populations to adapt to the new conditions thousands of ye...
Alien megastructures would likely self-destruct be...
Dyson spheres, a type of huge megastructure designed to capture the energy output of a star, would b...
New way to pull uranium from water can help China'...
Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous ...
Does intermittent fasting improve gut health? Why ...
While intermittent fasting may be growing in popularity, relatively little is known about how it imp...
AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're ...
An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate ...
The everyday ways climate change is already making...
Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many small...
Was a famous supernova an alien invader from anoth...
Kepler's Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astro...
Chimps share 'building blocks of musical rhythm' w...
Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our com...
All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuff...
Our bodies emit a stream of low-energy photons, and now experiments in mice have revealed that this ...
Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off ...
With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shakier. It is a pity th...
Our favourite science fiction books of all time (t...
Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite ...
Europe increasingly vulnerable to hailstones the s...
Very large hail – hailstones more than 5 centimetres in diameter – poses a growing threat to Europe ...
Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and...
Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due ...
Record heat in 2023 and 2024 may just have been na...
Simulations suggest that an extraordinary jump in temperatures seen in 2023 and 2024 could simply be...
Major US cities like New York and Seattle are sink...
Groundwater extraction, plate tectonics and consequences of the last glacial period mean that most o...
The maths that tells us when a scientific discover...
When huge scientific discoveries are made, you may hear that they are “statistically significant” or...
