Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox. We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers. Download the app ...

Life expectancy has increased dramatically over the past century, but our years of good health appear not to have kept pace.

Bone fragments found on King George Island have been identified as Dennis "Tink" Bell, a British meteorologist who fell into ...

The numbers of many tropical birds are plummeting, and now it has been shown that heat extremes intensified by global warming ...

A carbon dioxide removal company in Canada is experimenting with ways to treat mining waste to capture and store more CO2 ...

Having a full-time job in later life has been linked to improved emotional, financial and general life satisfaction - but the ...

In people with traumatic brain injury, treatment with the psychedelic drug ibogaine seems to slow down brainwaves, which may ...

The quickest way to win the board game Guess Who? involves asking sneaky questions that involve a logical fallacy, according ...

People with Alzheimer’s disease have lower levels of lithium in their brains than those without cognitive impairment, and a ...

A galaxy billions of light years from Earth houses what may be the most massive black hole in the universe, equivalent to ...

A single dose of the asthma medication zileuton stopped severe allergic reactions in mice by blocking food allergens from ...

The Indonesian island of Sulawesi was a likely stepping stone for ancient hominins to reach nearby Flores, the home of the ...