Norovirus vaccine pill shows promise against ‘winter vomiting’ bug
An artist’s impression of the norovirusScience Photo Library/Alamy An early trial of a norovirus vaccine pill has shown promise at ...
We need a global environmental court – and we need it now
With temperatures set to dramatically exceed the critical 1.5°C limit of warming above pre-industrial levels, our planet is in a ...
Health scares for a new generation must be tackled with solid science
Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library “Careless pork costs lives”, wrote The Sun newspaper, a British tabloid, in a headline about the ...
The OA review: The late director David Lynch echoes through this TV show
Prairie Johnson (Brit Marling) returns home with secrets to tellJoJo Whilden/Netflix The OABrit Marling and Zal BatmanglijNetflix Like many film ...
How Moore’s law led us to a flawed vision of the future
“If the 20th century was the age of atomics, then the 21st is the age of the internet”DKosig/Getty Images If ...
Eerie image of a space-bound rocket among photo contest finalists
A Soyuz MS rocket at Baikonur Cosmodrome in KazakhstanRhiannon Adam This ghostly image of a Soyuz MS rocket at Baikonur ...
Scientists want to poke me where, with a what?
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe ...
Motherdom review: How neuroscience and bad studies have fuelled intensive parenting
How mothers handle their baby’s every move is now subject to “expert” adviceSvetikd/Getty Images MotherdomAlex Bollen (Verso (UK, out now; US, pending)) Relax, ...
The critical computer systems still relying on decades-old code
Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed ...
Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought
Bones that appear to have been fashioned into tools date back 1.5 million yearsCSIC Ancient humans were regularly making tools ...
Light has been transformed into a ‘supersolid’ for the first time
Light has been made into a strange material called a supersolidBaac3nes/Getty Images An odd solid that can flow like a ...
Radcliffe wave: The solar system was once engulfed by a vast amount of gas and dust
A visualisation of the Radcliffe wave, a series of dust and gas clouds (marked here in red) across the Milky ...
Turing award: Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win for AI training trick
Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto made key breakthroughs in reinforcement learningDawn Gaves, University of Alberta/Zinj Guo, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...
Why RFK Jr.’s Strategies Have Experts Worried
Share on PinterestHealth experts have raised concerns about HHS Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s strategies for containing measles outbreaks in Texas ...
CDC Says Vitamin A Could Help Treat Measles: Why Experts Are Concerned
Share on PinterestHealth experts have raised concerns about a new CDC advisory that recommends vitamin A supplements as a therapy ...
Rapid at-home PSA tests spark concerns
BBCAt-home tests for men worried about prostate cancer can give inconsistent and inaccurate results, BBC News has found.The tests, which ...
Chimps and bonobos relieve social tension by rubbing their genitals
Male chimpanzees sometimes make sexual contact in stressful timesJake Brooker/ Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust Some chimpanzees seem to use sexual ...
DOGE eliminated the US government’s tech experts – what has been lost?
Under tech billionaire Elon Musk, the DOGE task force has slashed jobs across the US governmentAFP via Getty Images The ...
The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe’s expansion
Imagine looking out over a beautiful vista. The sun glances off the snowy peaks of distant mountains, a river winds ...
The first water may have formed surprisingly soon after the big bang
Water was born as the result of exploding starspixelparticle/Getty Images The first water molecules may have formed just 100 million ...
