Autistic masking may be an evolved survival response to social risk: useful for belonging, but costly when sustained over a ...

Boredom is one of those human traits, like appreciating humor or music or ocean views, that we take for granted without ...

We should all be concerned by the hyper-masculinity content some young boys are aligning themselves with, both online and in ...

How five psychology books explain the quiet forces shaping thought, judgement, and behaviour before decisions turn visible or ...

Woody Allen wanted to achieve immortality by not dying rather than through his work. Recently, China's General Secretary Xi ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...

Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...

This time of year is usually full of promise and good intentions. But when global unrest of various kinds starts to seem like ...

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that a good life is one that seeks to create order out of a natural state of chaos.

From frogs and sponges to jellyfish and tardigrades, scientists reveal how some animals digest food without defecating, ...