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Why it's high time we stopped anthropomorphising ants
We have long drawn parallels between ants and humans. Now we are comparing the insects to computers. It is time to stop using ants as …
Artists gaze into space in stunning new exhibition
A new show at the Royal West of England Academy brings together a series of works that interweave art and science
New Scientist recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can …
Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley …
What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths
In the ChatGPT era, a war over the nature of intelligence is playing out. Chris Stokel-Walker explores a Princeton professor's engaging take
The maths quirk that can cheer you up if you're feeling unpopular
If you feel like the least popular person among your friends, then a handy piece of maths might improve your mood, says Peter Rowlett
We need to get better at identifying postpartum depression in dads
Around 40 per cent of people are unaware that men can experience postpartum depression too — that has to change
Why some people cannot move on from the death of a loved …
Prolonged grief disorder affects around 1 in 20 people, and we're starting to understand the neuroscience behind it
Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years
Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with …
Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and …
Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is …
How baby microbiomes in the West differ from those everywhere else
Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to …
Ultramarathons could be bad for your blood
Running 170 kilometres over mountainous terrain caused people's red blood cells to accumulate more age-related damage than those of less ambitious athletes
Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowfall in part of Utah?
A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according to the company developing …
Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold, dark craters near the lunar poles would be the …
The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us …
The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence is revealing …
Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it …
Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems in their sleep
Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better tackle the problem the next …
The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved
A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in …
Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just one dose
The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists have shown it reduces depression symptoms more than a placebo …
We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is …
Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally …
Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits …
Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update
We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is …
Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark energy. Columnist …
Intermittent fasting probably doesn’t help with weight loss
Intermittent fasting appears to be no better than doing nothing when it comes to helping people who are overweight or have obesity lose weight
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