Networks of pipes carrying chilled water have proven to be an efficient way to cool hospitals and universities. Now, they are ...

Three problems that are out of reach for conventional computers have been cracked by quantum computers and show how important ...

Certain sleeping positions can lead to babies developing flattened heads, and an analysis of ancient skulls from Italy ...

A treatment that turns off the bit of the immune system that goes haywire in Guillain-Barré syndrome may be the first ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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