Jessica Hamzelou was previously a New Scientist reporter focussing on health and medical science, with a particular interest in fertility, neuroscience and microbiology.

Intermittingly inhaling a high dose of carbon dioxide seems to remove the proteins amyloid and tau, which are implicated in Alzheimer's disease, from the brain by boosting its glymphatic system ...

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has ...

Don’t just hit the beach. Research is revealing how to have a holiday that leaves you mentally restored and refreshed – with ...

Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that ...

Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to ...

Colin Barras is a science writer focusing on life sciences. He has a BSc in geology from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, a PhD on the Jurassic ...

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a ...

The author of space opera Slow Gods digs into the details of exploring what happens when a planet is about to be destroyed by ...

Tom Leslie has been a subeditor at New Scientist since 2022. Sometimes seen posing as a writer, he has an interest in anything to do with organic molecules, microorganisms and cell biology. Tom is ...

The best treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) might be antivirals that target the Epstein-Barr virus. Pharmaceutical companies are now being called on to develop such drugs after researchers studied ...

An ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician has been identified for the first time along with his complex calculations made around 1200 years ago, predicting the orbital cycles of Mars and Venus. “This ...