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Women appear cognitively normal for almost three years longer than men after their brains start to develop Alzheimer's disease, making it harder to diagnose and preventing early treatment ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health ...

On a visit to the UK, Sydney-based reporter James Woodford visited an archaeological site that was on his bucket list - and experienced a very special moment as the sun set ...

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments ...

Jennie Durant's Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas Lewton. But the book's grim figures of bee death alone may not prompt deep change - how about seeing them as fellow creatures?

Feedback goes down a "moon warfare" rabbit hole and discovers that some forward-thinkers are making plans to counteract as-yet-hypothetical pirates in space ...

Previously classified photos and documents show the scientific work that went into the world's first atomic test in 1945 - a test that, just weeks later, would see nuclear bombs dropped in Japan ...

Like covid-19 and mpox before it, the decision to relabel PCOS as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome is a welcome one - and reveals why a name is never just a name ...

There's unexpected news of a fifth movie for one of the most underrated sci-fi reboots. Hurray, says New Scientist film columnist Bethan Ackerley ...