National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly available, but fears of ...

An advanced version of the famous double-slit experiment has directly measured a single photon in two places at once – or at least, that’s the claim made by a team of physicists who say these results ...

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, reveals how a book that was originally intended to be ...

An infestation of caterpillars can make an oak tree postpone when it opens its leaves next year by three days, wrong-footing ...

A genomic study may have revealed how Greenland sharks live for centuries and yet rarely get cancer. These sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) are slow-moving dwellers of the deep that can reach more ...

Should you really be drinking eight glasses of water a day? What about reaching for a sports drink after exercise?

Uranus’s outermost two rings are surprisingly dissimilar, which opens up a mystery about the tiny moons and moonlets that ...

Robots can now run a half-marathon faster than humans and are rapidly homing in on the 100-metre sprint record. But why are ...

A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time, but it could help ...

In this extract from Luminous, the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet a mysterious robot discovered in a ...

A revolutionary cancer treatment is now being applied to a wide range of autoimmune disorders. Columnist Michael Le Page ...