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The secret signals our organs send to repair tissu...
Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping...
Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred o...
We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and i...
Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What...
To eliminate bedtime struggles, a growing number of parents have turned to melatonin gummies, but th...
CRISPR grapefruit without the bitterness are now i...
Gene-editing citrus fruits to make them less bitter could not only encourage more people to eat them...
The best new popular science books of February 202...
Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles ...
Can we genetically improve humans using George Chu...
Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutatio...
Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain dama...
Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and ...
Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision...
Reports suggest that Elon Musk is eyeing up a merger involving SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, but what does ...
Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid i...
Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and e...
The best new science fiction books of February 202...
We pick the sci-fi novels we’re most looking forward to reading this month, from a new Brandon Sande...
How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmar...
In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all ...
Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex r...
Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-ficti...
Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton
In this extract from the February read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet the protagonist of T...
Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dys...
The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia t...
This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-r...
Elizabeth Hohmann is very interested in faeces, and spends her days sifting through stools to find t...
AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggr...
Interval cancers are aggressive tumours that grow during the interval after someone has been screene...
Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half t...
A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly...
Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warm...
Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the populati...
