DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that ...

By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly even some conscious ...

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing ...

A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD explains the sharp rise ...

Neurologist Emily Rogalski studies "superagers" – people in their 80s or 90s with unusually ...

Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is frozen forever might not ...

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully ...

Evidence is mounting that there are distinct subtypes of autism, and now, scientists have found that the condition can vary ...

Inspired by Ariel Waldman’s docuseries Life Unearthed, columnist Annalee Newitz explores how microscopes, drones and ...

Disappearing sea ice is letting more sunlight in the Arctic Ocean and boosting phytoplankton growth, but this has depleted a ...

Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots understand instructions and ...

Scientists have long grappled with how to measure the effect of social media on children. Now, the UK government has ...