Jake Buehler is a freelance science writer located in Washington state who adores the tree of life’s weird, wild and unsung ways. Jake has a background in marine biology and genetics, and writes about ...

Clare Wilson is a health journalist focused on medicine, health policy, neuroscience, archaeology and the life sciences. She previously edited medical features for New Scientist and was biomedical ...

An experiment showed AI users had the most creative ideas when they used it in moderation – not too much and not too little. Columnist David Robson puts the finding to the test, and explores what we l ...

A supplement comprised of dead bacteria seems to remove microplastics, and prevent their absorption into cells, by attracting ...

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 ...