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Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the buildings of the future ...

An experimental gene therapy seems to slow the progression of Huntington's disease by about 75 per cent, and researchers are working to make its complicated delivery much more practical ...

The liquid ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa appears to be completely sealed off from the planet's surface, which may reduce the chances of finding life there ...

Ejaculating within 48 hours of providing a sperm sample for IVF seems to lead to greater success rates than abstaining from ejaculation for longer ...

By requesting copies of the then-UK technology secretary's ChatGPT logs, New Scientist set a precedent for how freedom of information laws apply to chatbot interactions, helping to hold governments to account ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to come thick and fast. But when we've found it, how will we know for sure?

From vitamin C to your microbiome and mindset, the latest science of immunity is often counterintuitive. Here's how to give your system a fighting chance to overcome infection ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer scrutiny ...

Mysterious 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded in an enormous ball of glowing gas ...

We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson finds promising evidence for how to boost this process ...