Join us for a mind-blowing festival of ideas and experiences
11 February 2022
Our award-winning festival, New Scientist Live is back to stimulate, challenge and inspire with some of today’s biggest scientific discoveries and ideas.
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Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals
9 October 2019
Creatures with incredible superpowers including the ability to survive being frozen and suffocated and resist ageing could revolutionise medicine, space travel and even war
We have the power to halt evolution itself – should we use it?
29 August 2018
Unwanted mutations are undermining food security and medicine. Controlling such evolution is now possible and tempting, but there will be unintended consequences
Evolution is making us sick and for the first time we can stop it
29 August 2018
Far from being a slow process, evolution can act fast and is responsible for major health problems from cancer to antimicrobial resistance. Now we have the power to end it
The cancer-fighting multi-organ: 9 ways the placenta is amazing
30 May 2018
From helping us conquer the world to curing cancer, here are nine reasons why the placenta deserves our appreciation
People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result
3 May 2018
A gene variant that helps humans cope with colder climates also seems to have put people living in northerly regions at a higher risk of migraine
The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease
29 March 2018
A few amphibian species in Panama are recovering from near-extinction, after apparently evolving resistance to the deadly chytrid fungus
Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses
22 February 2018
Bats can carry viruses like Ebola and Marburg that are lethal for humans. This may be because, in order to fly, their bodies have given up on fighting such viruses
