Clare Wilson is a health journalist focused on medicine, health policy, neuroscience, archaeology and the life sciences. She previously edited medical features for New Scientist and was biomedical ...

A supplement comprised of dead bacteria seems to remove microplastics, and prevent their absorption into cells, by attracting ...

An experiment showed AI users had the most creative ideas when they used it in moderation – not too much and not too little. Columnist David Robson puts the finding to the test, and explores what we l ...

An open-source flight-control system found in consumer drones has been installed in Ukraine’s latest cruise missile, showing ...

Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low cost ...

The 2026 Tour de France has been the hottest ever. Norwegian-method pioneer and Uno-X Mobility coach Olav Aleksander Bu ...

Zombie, or senescent, cells accumulate in our body with age, when we become less able to clear them. But a study in mice ...

A spate of new studies is revealing the lifelong impact of being marked as exceptional during childhood – and the results ...

A drone that spins 25 times a second can avoid being spotted by becoming nothing more than a vague blur – though the creators ...

Today is the 20th anniversary of one of the most iconic images in science. On 23 April 1998, US climate scientist Michael Mann and two colleagues published a paper in Nature. Central to it was a graph ...

More than 500 genes associated with intelligence have been identified in the largest study of its kind. Researchers used data from the UK Biobank, comparing DNA variants from more than 240,000 people.

Keith Thomas, 48, has paralysis, but brain stimulation helped him regain some feeling and movement in his hands – and this ...