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46% of Americans don't get enough alone time during the holiday season, even though 56% say it's crucial for their mental health. Taking brief moments alone can help the nervous system settle, reducing stress and improvi...

A new study suggests that gut microbes played a key role in the evolution of larger brains in primates by influencing energy production and usage. Researchers implanted microbes from humans, squirrel monkeys (large-brain...

New research reveals that initial reactions to unpleasant drug experiences, like bitterness or discomfort, may predict susceptibility to addiction. In a rat study, individual responses to a bitter-tasting cue paired with...

Researchers discovered that cannabis affects brain development by interacting with CB1 receptors on astrocytes, not just neurons. Using a mouse model, they showed that removing these receptors impaired the brain's abilit...

Researchers have traced how the brain filters out background noise during speech using signals between the motor and auditory cortices. These milliseconds-long electrical signals, called auditory corollary discharge, ori...

Parts from dozens of different individual comb jellies have been fused together to create strange new animals unlike anything seen before

Frontotemporal dementia, affecting about 3% of dementia patients in Sweden, is characterized by a loss of empathy that challenges patients and their families. Using functional MRI, researchers found that patients showed ...

Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022. In new research, my colleagues and I have for the first time tracked one of these pulsating signals b...

James Webb Space Telescope image of the stellar nursery N79 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Researchers stimulated the vagus nerve in healthy volunteers and showed it triggered blood clot formation, which they say could be used to prevent blood loss after surgery.

Researchers say the finds are from aristocratic burials between the fourth and sixth centuries.

An office worker in Beijing developed a parasitic infection that caused worms to grow under her right eyelid.

Researchers at the University of Adelaide, as part of an international team, have developed an approach that makes advanced microscopy possible through an optical fiber thinner than a human hair.

We collected some of the wildest physics that New Scientist covered in 2024, findings that are forcing scientists - and us - to rethink reality

We collected some of the wildest physics that New Scientist covered in 2024, findings that are forcing scientists - and us - to rethink reality

The 16-part course, currently in its pilot phase, is catered to high school students but available to anyone interested in learning about the fundamental questions in particle physics.

The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter will be livestreamed for everyone to see.

From Alzheimer's disease to depression to heart disease, Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonist drugs appear to offer a solution. Can one type of drug really tackle so many conditions, and if so, how does it actually work?

Excess energy from wireless 6G networks could be harvested by a copper coil and the human body.

Astronomers have spotted a 70-centimetre asteroid that is set to hit the atmosphere above northern Siberia at 4.15 pm GMT, making a fireball in the sky

Astronomers spotted a 70-centimetre asteroid hours before it hit the atmosphere above northern Siberia, making a fireball in the sky

A 2014 satellite photo of the Sivash region shows off the kaleidoscopic colors of a series of shallow, hypersaline lagoons -- each filled with a different kind of algae.