Reading the parts of Romeo or Juliet in a brain scanner has shown that actors have less brain activity related to their sense of self when they take on a role | Continue reading
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a form of ketamine for use in treatment-resistant depression. While there are unknowns, it is a welcome move, says Celia Morgan | Continue reading
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a form of ketamine for use in treatment-resistant depression. While there are unknowns, it is a welcome move, says Celia Morgan | Continue reading
The West thinks China’s internet is all about firewalls and censorship, but as a new book shows, the battle for control is full of dubious motives | Continue reading
Black and Hispanic people in the US are, on average, exposed to more dirty air than white people, despite generally producing less pollution | Continue reading
Scientists fear the UK has lost its way due to Brexit and research could suffer as a result, one of the country’s most respected scientists tells New Scientist | Continue reading
Some caterpillars happily dine on arsenic-loaded leaves. Accumulating the poison in their bodies may be a tactic to ward of predators | Continue reading
Japan is edging towards building a “Higgs factory” – a massive particle collider that would produce large numbers of Higgs bosons | Continue reading
Even in winter, rain is becoming more common across Greenland’s ice sheet, and it may be playing an important role in rising sea levels | Continue reading
Rabbit fossils suggest that Neanderthals had a varied diet including hunting small, fast prey, meaning they were very adaptable | Continue reading
We're told that switching phone networks to the fifth-generation of wireless tech will give us blistering speeds, but it's not clear anyone actually needs an upgrade | Continue reading
For Joy Milne, Parkinson’s is musky, cancer earthy and Alzheimer’s smells like vanilla. Following her nose could pave the way for future tests | Continue reading
A rise in violent knife crime in the UK has led to calls for an increase in police numbers, but Scotland is taking an alternative approach to tackle the issue | Continue reading
Even in the worst climate change scenarios, wind and solar power generation levels in Europe can be maintained, despite UN predictions that cloudier and stormier weather will affect output | Continue reading
A study of 650,000 children has confirmed yet again that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine does not increase the risk of getting autism | Continue reading
Over half a million people will descend on the Geneva Motor Show this week to glimpse their future car, which increasingly looks likely to be electric | Continue reading
Megafloods, broken backstops and retreating ice sheets combine in a geological epic: the dramatic story of Britain's protracted original exit from Europe | Continue reading
Researchers are about to begin testing whether electrical brain stimulation can reduce violent thoughts among convicts in a Spanish prison | Continue reading
Plans for a permanent lab far beneath the waves, crewed by autonomous underwater rovers, are gathering pace in China – here's what the facility might be like | Continue reading
When ant nests are invaded by parasitic intruders, larvae may try to protect their family by eating the invaders’ eggs | Continue reading
Making and using smartphones, computers and TVs will soon produce 4 per cent of global emissions. The figure will double to 8 per cent by 2025 | Continue reading
An intermittent low-calorie diet eased inflammatory bowel disease in mice and it may do the same for people with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis | Continue reading
The warty comb jelly is unique among animals, because its anus completely disappears when it has finished defecating | Continue reading
A person in the UK appears to have had HIV eliminated from his body thanks to a bone marrow transplant from someone with genetic resistance to the virus | Continue reading
Internet-connected cars promise to reduce traffic incidents with sensors that can stop a car, but if they were hacked whole cities could shut down | Continue reading
Sorting a stack of pancakes by size is a vexing challenge for mathematicians, but Microsoft's Bill Gates came up with an enduring solution. | Continue reading
A gel made from urea, the main compound in urine, spontaneously forms braided nanofibres that could help with engineering new medicines | Continue reading