Several conditions including anxiety, depression and anorexia all share a common set of genes, which could lead to better diagnoses | Continue reading
Most soldiers who die from potentially survival wounds suffer from uncontrolled bleeding. The US Army developed a bandage material that can seal wounds faster and more effectively | Continue reading
UK beer, fizzy drinks and meat producers have all warned of CO2 shortages disrupting supplies and have called on the government to act. So what's going on, and how bad is it? | Continue reading
NASA is designing and testing missions to deflect a potential asteroid from hitting Earth, and working with emergency responders to plan for a day when one does | Continue reading
President Trump has announced the creation of a Space Force, the first new US military branch since 1947, but it’s not yet clear what this new corps will do | Continue reading
A neural network has taught itself to ‘imagine’ a scene from different viewpoints, including how shadows move and textures vary, based on just a single image | Continue reading
A painting of Ravel's Boléro, by a woman who shared a brain condition with the composer, provides a scientific window into the creative mind | Continue reading
Ditching fossil fuels to go 100 per cent renewable is a dream within reach – thanks to new tech that keep things humming even when wind and sun aren’t there | Continue reading
For the last 6 months, the New Horizons spacecraft that flew past Pluto in 2015 has been in hibernation, hurtling towards a distant rock – it has just woken up | Continue reading
Plasma is a state of matter, like liquid or gas, that is fatal to bacteria, so a new wearable plasma patch is being tested to dress wounds | Continue reading
Using the word detox to promote drinks such as tea as well as food and other products is essentially meaningless. Time to give it a rest, says Anthony Warner | Continue reading
If you have a large brain, certain regions are much bigger than expected and others are smaller – but we don’t know how this affects brain function yet | Continue reading
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries | Continue reading
Sound waves are carried by vibrating particles, so how could the waves pass through a vacuum devoid of atoms? The key lies in special crystals | Continue reading
A rocket engine propelled by electromagnetic waves grabbed headlines, but new tests find the EM drive may actually be driven by Earth’s magnetic field | Continue reading
Data from millions of Facebook users, including their answers to intimate questionnaires, was left exposed online for anyone to access, a New Scientist investigation has found | Continue reading
A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars – and a weird effect astronomers are struggling to explain | Continue reading
Doctors are warning that some people should change the way they recharge their brain implants, after a lightning strike shut down a woman’s stimulation device | Continue reading
Watch our video to discover how best to flambé that cherished festive sweet | Continue reading
Pests and disease threaten our supply of cocoa beans, but in a field outside London biologists are working to prevent a chocolate meltdown. We paid a visit | Continue reading
Hair of the dog? Wine before beer? Why everything you know about hangovers, and how to cure them, is wrong – or unproven | Continue reading
Humans have faced off with grids, dice and pieces for millennia – figuring out the rules of long-lost board games can take us inside ancient minds | Continue reading
Hair of the dog? Wine before beer? Why everything you know about hangovers, and how to cure them, is wrong – or unproven | Continue reading
From who will host to the last piece of cake, ‘tis the season to bicker like wild animals. Have yourself a merrier little Christmas with some strategic thinking | Continue reading
The most insidious consequences of the festive meal are a lot more interesting than you think | Continue reading
A dishwasher is supposed to make life easy, if only we could agree how to load it. It’s time to settle the argument | Continue reading
The most insidious consequences of the festive meal are a lot more interesting than you think | Continue reading
What happens if you try to get mashed on potatoes and sauced on sauce? It's a sobering insight into what really happens to the booze we cook with | Continue reading
The story of evolution spans over 3 billion years and shows how microscopic single-celled organisms transformed Earth and gave rise to complex organisms like animals | Continue reading