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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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A drone that spins 25 times a second can avoid being spotted by becoming nothing more than a vague blur – though the creators ...

A spate of new studies is revealing the lifelong impact of being marked as exceptional during childhood – and the results ...

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

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