Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, with a study now suggesting that a novel approach eases brain deficits and symptoms associated with ...

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch ...

A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn't produce perfect copies – with big implications ...

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows ...

Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...

For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodford’s experience raising worms – both the small ...

My hypothesis on why they aren’t eaten is due to the large number of poisonous animals in the ocean. For example, if an orca ...

An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first ...