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In Berlin in the early 1870s, tourists began visiting a neighborhood called Barackia. It did not have...

No one had very high career aspirations for teenager David A. Weston—except for Weston himself. Growing up in London, he scored low on the U.K. national assessment test given to students finishing primary school. The result meant that his...

Chemists have discovered a new molecular shape, and it is twice as odd as the twisty Möbius strip. The Möbius...

A single dose of psilocybin – the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – produces rapid reductions in symptoms of...

Elie Habib doesn’t work in the defense or intelligence industries. Instead, he runs Anghami, one of the Middle East’s largest music streaming platforms. But as missiles began flying across the region, a side project he coded earlier this year...

A new device aims to give people control over who can hear them in a world filled with gadgets that are always listening and capturing your conversations. A startup called Deveillance has introduced Spectre I, a portable device designed...

Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) -- the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals -- arguing it makes users less safe. E2EE means only the...

At first glance, the Aria EV looks not much different than any other student-built electric prototype—no different than the battery-powered cars built by engineering students from dozens of universities every year. Beneath its panels, however, is a challenge to...

Let’s start off with a fact: you do not, no matter what you’ve heard, eat a credit card’s worth...