To eliminate bedtime struggles, a growing number of parents have turned to melatonin gummies, but these hormone supplements are largely unregulated. Columnist Alice Klein digs into the evidence on the ...

After many years of connecting brilliant minds with the world’s leading science employers, New Scientist Jobs has now closed. We want to express our heartfelt thanks to every employer, recruiter, and ...

Gene-editing citrus fruits to make them less bitter could not only encourage more people to eat them, it might also help save the industry from a devastating plague ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

Katie McCormick is a physicist-turned-science writer based in Sacramento, California. Katie received her Ph.D. in 2019 at University of Colorado and did a postdoc at UW in Seattle, where she ...

Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and we're starting to ...

Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and each of us may have a ...

We pick the sci-fi novels we’re most looking forward to reading this month, from a new Brandon Sanderson to  the latest from ...

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our ...

Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutations and variants that is ...

In this extract from the February read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet the protagonist of Tim Winton’s Juice, ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...