A fungus named Psilocybe ochraceocentrata is the closest relative of a widely cultivated psychedelic mushroom, giving clues ...

For more than two years, companies and prospectors around the world have been hunting for underground reserves of natural ...

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Surging mpox cases in East, West and Central Africa prompted the World Health Organization to once again make the infection a ...

Arianwen Herbert is a freelance video reporter for New Scientist. She is a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Bioscience at the ...

The ability to admit ignorance could be a sign of truly intelligent AI, and a new quiz of unsolved or perhaps even unsolvable ...

Many children in the US seem to be using a chatbot to help them with their work, despite the risks of errors and often in ...

A survey of more than 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that “superflares” that are linked to bursts of radiation which play ...

The US Navy has many tasks it wants quantum devices to tackle, from setting maintenance schedules to enabling nearly ...

More and more people under 50 have been diagnosed with bowel cancer in different parts of the world over the past few decades ...

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins ...

They were loved by Charles Darwin, they build brilliantly bad nests and they even produce a kind of “milk”. Surely, these ...