People's skin can become inflamed when they wear cosmetics because a molecule in the skin triggers an immune response — but the reaction may be reversible.
Some brittlestars, close relatives of starfish and sea urchins, can work out where light is coming from by changing the color of their bodies.
The DNA computer uses a process known as hybridisation, which occurs when two strands of DNA attach together to form double-stranded DNA.
Delivering the only vaccine known to treat tuberculosis via veins rather than the skin can dramatically increase its potency, tests in monkeys show.
He Jiankui, the scientist who used CRISPR to create two gene-edited girls born in 2018, has been handed a three-year jail term by a court in Shenzen, China.
From the chunkiest T-rex to the magnetism of the entire universe, here are the strangest, most amazing facts the New Scientist team learned this year.
An analysis of 25 studies suggests there is a link between air pollution and depression and suicide.
To solve the problem of Japan's aging workforce, tech companies have developed exoskeletons that help older workers continue to do heavy manual labour.
Bear mothers who keep their cubs for longer tend to live closer to people — perhaps as a way to avoid males who would drive their offspring away.
Websites that provide resources about mental health conditions such as depression track individual users and share their data with advertisers.
A survey of Tinder users in Norway suggests that half don't connect with their matches in the real world. Even fewer meet someone keen on a long-term relationship.
We now have a refined estimate for the mass of the neutrino, the most abundant massive particle in the universe.
Artificial intelligence can predict your chances of dying within a year by looking at heart test results, but doctors can't work out what patterns it's picking up.
Not only can rats can learn to drive tiny cars around an arena in exchange for food, but their hormone levels suggest they find driving relaxing.
Planets that glow could be a telltale sign they are home to life.
When it comes to who is happier, people with kids or those without, most research points to the latter. But a new study suggests that parents are happier than non-parents later in life, when their children move out and become sources of social enjoyment rather than stress.
India launched its second moon mission on Monday, July 22. The mission will place a lander and rover near the moon's south pole, a promising site for human exploration.
Many of the brightest, weirdest phenomena in space come from cataclysmic events like explosions or collisions. But many fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most mysterious space signals we've seen, must not. That might mean that they are all part of a class of FRB that we previously thought might be rare.
Astronauts who have spent months in microgravity have more liquid in their brains, which may affect their vision even after they get back home.
FamilyTreeDNA is bowing to a backlash against its decision to allow the FBI access to its databases.