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Neanderthals may have used tar made from tree bark as an antiseptic to treat wounds. Modern-day experiments with birch...

Rebecca Solnit is an activist and author of more than 25 books, including the essay collection Men Explain Things...

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

Have you ever received an email and had a sneaking suspicion it was written by AI, rather than lovingly...

Bubbles in a 3-million-year-old ice core have allowed researchers to measure gases in the atmosphere during the late Pliocene...

Think of a psychopath and you probably picture someone dangerous, someone whose ruthless self-interest leads to great harm for...

With Anthropic's AI systems being ushered out of the Pentagon, a battle is brewing among other major artificial intelligence firms looking to capitalize on this potentially lucrative opening and shape the way AI is integrated...

Psychedelics may be no more effective than traditional antidepressants for treating depression. Drugs like psilocybin, LSD and DMT have...

I will admit that the popularity of those giant, stainless steel, gravity-fed water filters remained a mystery to me for some years—even as multi-gallon water filter systems from brands like British Berkefeld and Berkey seemed to proliferate equally among...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media, written by Jason Koebler: Over the last few months, various academics and AI companies have attempted to predict how artificial intelligence is going to impact the labor market. These...