People who were deprived of sleep overnight didn't seem to adapt to being in a potentially threatening space, which may help ...

Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and ...

Taking metformin, a type 2 diabetes drug, has been linked to a lower risk of dementia over the following decades, but the ...

Water is essential for good brain function, with a handful of convincing studies suggesting that dehydration could be slowing ...

After years of searching, mathematicians have found dice that can allow five players to fairly decide who moves first in a board game, with a winner guaranteed from just a single roll ...

For centuries, we’ve ignored the interstitium, but research is now revealing that this body-wide network of fluid is ...

Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic pollution are created each year. One option may be to turn the pollution into food, ...

Renowned climate scientist James Hansen says the developing super El Niño has already "blown past" previous events with ...

The cooling of the North Atlantic is creating waviness in the jet stream and high-pressure ridging over Europe, a study finds ...

Severe burns are often treated with synthetic products ahead of skin graft surgery, but there is evidence that a product made ...

Intense fires are already burning in Indonesia, and there could be much worse to come as the Super El Niño ramps up ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Peter Heller's post-apocalyptic novel The Dog Stars in August. He joined head of ...