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An implant that monitors brain activity and provides personalised stimulation halved the discomfort of people living with chronic pain ...

Social upheaval across Europe between 1250 and 1860 correlates with volcanic eruptions, reduced sunspot activity and surging food prices ...

Psilocybin appears to alter brain networks linked to repetitive negative thoughts, which may explain how the drug helps to treat some mental health conditions ...

A tiny engine comprised of a glass bead zapped with electric fields behaves as if it is operating 2000 times hotter than the sun ...

Weather apps regularly differ in their predictions for the same location - why is it so hard to predict local forecasts, and where can we get the best weather information?

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel "Circular Motion". We liked it - but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction ...

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic novel The Dispossessed. In this extract from its opening, we get our first glimpse of the planet Anarres ...

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "The Dispossessed". Here, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin considers the artistic process behind it - and why it still resonates today ...

Surgery, not antibiotics, might be the best way to treat chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition that leaves people with a permanently blocked or runny nose and a reduced sense of smell ...

Social media platforms will soon have to exclude children under 16 in Australia, but there are doubts over how age verification tools will work - and whether this is the right approach to deal with online harms ...