New Scientist
Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark m...
An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supe...
Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the bo...
Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions ...
More dog breeds found to have high risk of breathi...
An assessment of nearly 900 dogs has identified 12 breeds prone to brachycephalic obstructive airway...
Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments ...
Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting agains...
Why some people cannot move on from the death of a...
Prolonged grief disorder affects around 1 in 20 people, and we're starting to understand the neurosc...
Data centres could store information in glass for ...
Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising t...
Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can n...
Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At la...
How baby microbiomes in the West differ from those...
Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world,...
Ultramarathons could be bad for your blood
Running 170 kilometres over mountainous terrain caused people's red blood cells to accumulate more a...
Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowf...
A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in th...
Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold,...
The untold story of our remarkable hands and how t...
The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. ...
Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over...
Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems ...
Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lu...
The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally...
A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms ...
Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just...
The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists h...
We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not wh...
The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now...
Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we ...
Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique f...
