Biogerontologists are exploring the upper limit for human life. A recent study has it verging on two centuries – but ...

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

Bird flu. Bird flu is a viral infection that has evolved to affect mammals, including humans. The strain H5N1 was detected in ...

A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has produced positive results in a final-stage trial involving skin cancer, raising hopes ...

Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter – or ...

For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large ...

Heartland virus and Bourbon virus, which are transmitted by lone star ticks, have killed at least seven people in the US ...

To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest micro-napping ...

Two clusters of neurons in the mouse brain seem to create the drive to get some shut-eye, potentially hinting at a new target ...

AI agents devised a way to reduce friction of an airplane wing model even without access to a costly computer simulation ...

Brain organoids have been grown and studied for five years, the longest time to date, and their activity suggests they had a ...