Falling cats seem to twist the front half of their body firstEvolve/Photoshot/ZUMAPRE​SS/Alamy When falling cats turn themselves the right way up before they hit the ground, they have a secret...

Now imagine this mantis shrimp in a spacesuit, with a taste for weaponryShutterstock/Samy Kassem The fourth novel in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s much fêted Children of Time series is nearly with us....

Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing [email protected] A shedload...

How can we spot if someone is lying to us?  There are no easy tellsMargarita Young/Alamy Poisonous PeopleLeanne ten BrinkeSimon & Schuster It seems only fitting that a book about...

NASA, ESA, CFHT, CXO, M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis), and A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State University) A few years ago, the internet caught alight with talk of a “vibe...

Live action video game LANDER 23Punchdrunk Controls jam, data streams go haywire, smoke pours from every vent. Your Lander 23 spaceship has crashed in hostile territory. You must explore a...

Women who use vaginal estrogen to manage early menopause after treatment for endometrial cancer may not have an increased risk for recurrence. Medscape Medical News Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/vaginal-estrogen-safe-after-endometrial-cancer-2026a10006q1?src=rss Author...

(MedPage Today) -- "We recently had a bad outcome with a child in our emergency department. We need your help to figure out how we could have done better." As...

(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Should children with food allergies be able to start treatment as soon as they're diagnosed, or is it better to wait to see if they...

(MedPage Today) -- Disenrollment from health plans was associated with an increased risk of mortality among patients who initiated medications for opioid use disorder (OUD), according to a retrospective cohort...

(MedPage Today) -- Fewer U.S. women died around the time of childbirth in 2024, a government analysis shows, and provisional data suggest the trend may have continued last year. The...

Higher sea levels put cities at risk of flooding caused by storm surges, as seen in Sri Lanka during Cyclone Ditwah in 2025Thomas Wyness / Alamy Stock Photo Almost all...

(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- Patients undergoing surgery for degenerative lumbar spine disease did worse when they received anticoagulants as part of the procedure, results of a single-center study...

Artwork of a Hybodus shark, a predator that evolved in the late Permian and survived the mass extinctionCHRISTIAN DARKIN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The worst known mass extinction wiped out over 80...

(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- Patients having rotator cuff repair surgery did best if they didn't use nicotine products at all, but among those who did, those using e-cigarettes...

Investing in women’s health is investing in their livesGates Archive When I was a paediatrician in my native Karachi, Pakistan, I treated so many babies who were born too early...

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A 27-year-old ambulance driver in Italy is being investigated for allegedly murdering five patients during or soon after...

Share on PinterestWhen 36-year-old Gabby Zappia (pictured above) reported blood in her stool, her doctor attributed it to pregnancy-related hemorrhoids. Months later, a colonoscopy revealed she had stage IV colon...

GPs are spending up to a third of their time on paperwork, as patients and doctors warn NHS bureaucracy is undermining care. Medscape News UK Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/patients-and-gps-unite-over-nhs-maze-2026a10006mb?src=rss Author...

Doctors say FOI data reveal far more vacant consultant posts in NHS Scotland than official figures suggest, raising concerns over waiting lists and patient care. Press Association Source link :...