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Unpicking endometriosis reveals how it affects more than the pelvis

You could get some of the benefits of sleep without having to nod off

Are we getting to the point where it's safe to gene-edit babies?

Cuts to US ocean programme will hinder monitoring of El Niño and AMOC

Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit

A chromosome from a frozen rat has been resurrected inside mice

The maths meme that has been distracting mathematicians for a century

Becoming a parent may make you love your partner less

Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening

How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

Stonehenge's altar stone probably wasn't transported by a glacier

The looming El Niño could be bad – but much worse is to come

Everyone is Lying to You for Money is a must-watch exposé of crypto

Explore the mind-bending and paradoxical art of M C. Escher

Escher: The paradoxical artist beloved by mathematicians

Superintelligent machines may well need us after all

New Scientist recommends a deep dive into our organs by Giulia Enders

An encyclopedia formed from AI hallucinations – what could go wrong?

Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

Earth has a mysterious triple symmetry that may influence its climate

Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy use, say researchers

Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in the race to usefulness

Keto diet shows real promise for anorexia recovery

Ötzi's frozen remains may harbour metabolically active microbes

Why you need to future-proof your brain in middle age and how to start

How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes to the universe

The best new popular science books of June 2026

Hearing loss is bad for the whole body – but new treatments are coming

Hidden store of manganese may have helped Earth get its oxygen

New Scientist recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

'Transformative' pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival time

Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?

A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

How human error became a weapon against large language models

Huge study of Alzheimer’s genetics identifies new drug targets

Geoengineering can thicken Arctic sea ice, but for how long?

The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them

Aim high but don't shoot for the moon, mathematicians advise

Horror video game gets its creepiness from a quantum computer

We're becoming more individualistic and it's affecting our love lives

Mirror life: Scientists clash over threat of lab-engineered bacteria

Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients

Q-Day could destroy bitcoin – and our retirement savings

Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Glaciers in the 'roof of the world' have suddenly started melting

Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-old problem

Start-ups are racing to revolutionise mathematics with AI

3D-printed lymph nodes could widen access to CAR T-cell therapy