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The brain has its own microbiome. Here's what it m...
Neuroscientists have been surprised to discover that the human brain is teeming with microbes, and w...
Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multipl...
Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them...
Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actual...
Dopamine was long thought to play a part in the placebo effect for pain relief, but a new study is q...
Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and...
In most vertebrates, a pattern of chemical marks on the genome is a reliable indicator of age, but i...
The fascinating truth about why common sense isn't...
New research is revealing that common sense is a lot more idiosyncratic than we thought, with import...
Are superconducting power lines the key to a clean...
High-temperature superconducting cables that could transform the power grid may be increasingly viab...
AI discovers hundreds of ancient Nazca drawings in...
Archaeologists have used AI to discover hundreds of large-scale drawings depicting figures like llam...
Children with cancer may benefit from having a cat...
Interacting with animals seems to provide emotional support to young people with a serious illness, ...
Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more pr...
An octopus will work with several different species of fish to find and catch prey - and punch those...
The astrophysicist who may be about to discover ho...
Astronomer Jo Dunkley is planning to use the Simons Observatory to snare evidence for inflation, the...
Forests became less diverse when ancient people st...
Ancient DNA extracted from layers of sediment in a Czech forest shows how a drop in biodiversity coi...
Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in f...
Field trials indicate that pumping seawater onto the snow on top of Arctic sea ice can make the ice ...
An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 per cent of the t...
CAPTCHA tests are supposed to distinguish humans from bots, but an AI system mastered the problem af...
What to know about the new covid-19 XEC variant
A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines ar...
Why physicists are air-dropping buoys into the pat...
A sprawling research program aims to improve hurricane forecasts by collecting data at the chaotic i...
Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon's wors...
Forest loss is thought to have played a part in record low rainfall across South America this year, ...
Astronauts may need medical evacuation from one-th...
Medically evacuating an astronaut from space is difficult and expensive, and a new model predicts th...
New Scientist Live: What we are most excited about...
Here’s what members of the New Scientist editorial team are keenest to catch at the world’s greatest...
