Weight-loss surgery seems to lower the risk of colorectal cancer by changing where bile acids enter the small intestine, ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...

It is uncanny how human fears about robots mirror those about immigrants. But maybe they aren't out to take our jobs or ...

When driving over hills, is it more fuel-efficient to accelerate downhill or maintain a steady speed? And why is our heart ...

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...

Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have ...

A study into a spider species in which the females are prone to eat the males after sex is welcomed into Feedback's new ...

A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent ...

Adults and AI models fail to recognise messages with harmful intent expressed with Gen Alpha slang or memes, raising concerns ...

Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to ...