Taking psilocybin – the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms – eased symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder among ...

The Alzheimer’s field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginning outside the brain many ...

As technology outpaces human evolution, New Scientist CoLab examines the tension between our social instincts and modern ...

Analysing the births of a Utah family over seven generations has revealed that their disproportionate number of boys could be caused by a selfish Y chromosome ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...

Whether you call it a vibe shift or a paradigm shift, physicists must be ready to challenge their fundamental understanding ...

The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to make. But why is a slow, ...

The view of the horizon on a disc-shaped world would depend on the unlikely physics by which you believe it works, explains one reader ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

If this sounds like a review of a new game, it is, sort of. LANDER 23 is a real-world stealth game from London-based company ...