Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator. He makes weekly cartoons for New Scientist and The Guardian and occasional covers ...

An open-source flight-control system found in consumer drones has been installed in Ukraine’s latest cruise missile, showing ...

Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low cost ...

Gail Bradbrook, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, has called for a mass ingestion of psychedelic substances in protest ...

The mummified daughters of pharaohs who lived thousands of years ago have bone changes that suggest they fought with bows and ...

Taylor Mitchell Brown is a science journalist covering anthropology and paleontology with occasional forays into other disciplines. His work can be found in Science, New Scientist, and elsewhere. He ...

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Isha Ishtiaq is a health journalist based in Pakistan. Her work has appeared in Live Science, Science News and Medscape. She has a BS (Hons) in biotechnology from the University of Gujrat and an MS in ...

Zombie, or senescent, cells accumulate in our body with age, when we become less able to clear them. But a study in mice ...

Keith Thomas, 48, has paralysis, but brain stimulation helped him regain some feeling and movement in his hands – and this ...

Astronomers have only previously found atmospheres around exoplanets that are very large or incredibly hot – but now they ...

A new kind of antibody drug that more efficiently enters the brain could slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease with a ...