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The best new science fiction books of September 20...
Authors including literary heavyweight Ian McEwan and big hitters John Scalzi, Yume Kitasei and Cixi...
Bespoke brain implant gives long-term relief from ...
An implant that monitors brain activity and provides personalised stimulation halved the discomfort ...
Volcanic eruptions may have helped spark the Frenc...
Social upheaval across Europe between 1250 and 1860 correlates with volcanic eruptions, reduced suns...
Just one dose of psilocybin seems to be enough to ...
Psilocybin appears to alter brain networks linked to repetitive negative thoughts, which may explain...
Hottest engine in the world reveals weirdness of m...
A tiny engine comprised of a glass bead zapped with electric fields behaves as if it is operating 20...
Why are weather forecasting apps so terrible?
Weather apps regularly differ in their predictions for the same location – why is it so hard to pred...
Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hi...
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. ...
Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (m...
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "...
Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K....
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic novel The Dispossessed....
Go-to therapy for chronic sinus condition doesn't ...
Surgery, not antibiotics, might be the best way to treat chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition that le...
Will Australia's social media ban really keep teen...
Social media platforms will soon have to exclude children under 16 in Australia, but there are doubt...
Urine tests detect high-risk HPV as effectively as...
Several countries now offer at-home vaginal swabs to detect HPV status in place of traditional cervi...
The foundations of eczema may start to be laid dow...
Eczema can be very distressing for children – and now it seems that its roots may at least partly li...
Ancient crocodile relative could have ripped dinos...
A fossil discovered in Patagonia shows a 3.5-metre-long reptile from the late Cretaceous with large,...
We're no longer at our unhappiest during middle ag...
People used to experience an "unhappiness hump" around midlife, but declining youth mental health ma...
Understanding the Denisovans means understanding o...
Categorising the Denisovans as a distinct species would allow us to more comprehensively trace our o...
Glow-in-the-dark plants to replace streetlights? F...
The brightest and most colourful glowing plants yet have been created by injecting phosphorescent ch...
Armoured dinosaur's 'crazy' spikes weren't just fo...
A 165-million-year-old ankylosaur from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco was covered in an array of ext...
