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Calling ADHD a myth is pseudoscientific and dangerous
ADHD is a real condition that can have serious consequences if undiagnosed. An ill-informed documentary that suggests it is a modern, social
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It is finally time to talk about the impact of fluctuating hormones
For decades, women have felt the need to hide the impact of changes in their hormones, while scientists have excluded women from research to
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This sci-fi novel is a riveting tale of an oppressive galactic empire
A rich widow, a disillusioned cop and a dim hypersled driver are caught in the machinations of the oppressive party ruling the Decurion Empi
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Stunning image of a polar bear with an outsized snack wins major award
Roie Galitz's breathtaking shot is one of the winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest, praised for its unusual perspective and scale
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Twisteddoodles on distribution graphs (with added cats)
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
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Tom Gauld on popularity in the lab
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoonTom Gauld's weekly cartoon
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Don’t be an archaeologist in a movie if you want to survive
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This week’s new questions
Why do humans have a common sense of beauty for things like sunsets, and do other animals share this appreciation? And why can’t we cool wat
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Are flies following a strategy when they keep hitting windows? Part 4
Answers continue to pour in as New Scientist readers ponder this question, with one reader widening it out to consider dragonflies, and anot
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What size of planet would prevent space travel due to gravity? Part 2
Our readers continue to grapple with this question, coming at it from different angles – and also considering how big a planet has to be to
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The wild, gripping story of the psychedelic secreted by desert toads
Kimon de Greef's The Ego Trip chronicles the rise of a potent psychedelic drug, from the toads that secrete it to the man who claimed it has
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Newly-discovered immune hubs in our skull may keep our brain healthy
We may have clusters of immune cells at the back of our skull that help ward off conditions like brain cancer
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We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep
Two clusters of neurons in the mouse brain seem to create the drive to get some shut-eye, potentially hinting at a new target for sleep diso
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5-year-old brain organoids can sense the passing of time
Brain organoids have been grown and studied for five years, the longest time to date, and their activity suggests they had a sense of time g
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How wakeful rest may boost brain power in a manner similar to sleep
To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest micro-napping neurons can improv
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Supercentenarians have hypervigilant immune systems that fight off cancer
People aged 110 or older seem to have a disproportionately high number of immune cells that fight off cancer and infections
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AI could lower the cost of designing more efficient airplane wings
AI agents devised a way to reduce friction of an airplane wing model even without access to a costly computer simulation
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World may warm by 25 per cent more than current projections suggest
'Official' projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly underestimate future
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The surprising upsides of living in a reality that repeats for eternity
Having faced the prospect that our minds are random fluctuations in a dead universe, quantum cosmologist Sean Carroll suggests that we may b
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Female clones created from the blood of male mice
A CRISPR-based tool can perform sex reversal on male mouse embryos, reliably turning them into healthy females – a feat that could be valuab
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Postbiotic could reduce the risk of brain damage after a concussion
Giving mice a byproduct produced by gut bacteria reduced their risk of severe brain damage and cognitive difficulties after a traumatic brai
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Did humans evolve to be active throughout the day and night?
Evidence from hunter-gatherers suggests humans aren't diurnal but cathemeral, with bouts of activity at nighttime – a sleep pattern similar
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Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails
Operation Blue Skies is the world’s first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace, aiming to lower the climate
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Feeding our books into generative AI risks creating a cultural void
When we put our literature, games and films into AI models, we risk replacing our cultural history with a mishmash of auto-generated works.
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