A stunningly intact marine reptile named Austronaga minuta that lived around 245 million years ago may have looked like a ...

Laser-scanning surveys reveal that the ancient Aquiry civilisation was bigger than previously thought, building tens of ...

There was unusual consensus amongst New Scientist Book Club members about our read for July, with readers falling over ...

First Annie Jacobsen laid out a fictional scenario for nuclear war. Now her new book, Biological War: A scenario, imagines a ...

The moon is about 384,400 kilometres from Earth right now and our days are about 24 hours long. The moon pulls on Earth’s ...

NASA researcher Heidi Becker has photographed sublime sights around Jupiter that have never been seen before, from its ...

Nysa was first spotted more than 150 years ago, but only now are we finally figuring out its weird shape and mysterious ...

Measures like bans on advertising junk food to children are essential for instilling healthy eating at a young age, but we ...

For years, NASA has woken its space-bound astronauts with playlists chosen from classics of the time. The musical line-up was ...

An Australian reader with an abundance of flies in their locality tries to answer a question that has intrigued many of our ...

Cremona’s book is a guide to the different types of plankton found along the British coast, such as the larva of a Magelona ...

Steven Benner’s Meet The Neighbors is an intriguing tale of misunderstood planetary biochemistry. Paul Marks is engrossed ...