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For decades, rates of obesity in the US have climbed – but that trend may be changing. The number of adults with obesity dipped ever so slightly in 2023, suggesting the country has reached a ...

On 1 April, the US government abruptly laid off all 17 people running the country’s only nationwide survey on substance use and mental health. For more than half a century, the National Survey ...

Health US teens are using less of every substance – except for one. Teenagers in the US roughly doubled their use of nicotine pouches in 2024, despite turning away from alcohol and other drugs ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks.

Leah Crane Senior reporter This is my fifth New Scientist Live, and it has never been anything less than delightful. The thing I am most excited for is on Sunday, when Chelsea Whyte and I are ...