Following the possible recent detection of a dark matter particle, researchers have already come up with a veritable ...

The fish that preceded the first four-legged land animals came in a wider variety of forms than we had thought, and fossils ...

The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as ...

The theoretical physicist and New Scientist columnist talks to Alison Flood about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time - the September read for the New Scientist Book Club ...

Don’t read The Ambidextrous Universe unless you are serious about maths and physics, because Martin Gardner is very happy to make his readers work – to enthralling effect, says Jacklin Kwan ...

Stunning pictures of nebulae, stars, the moon and more took top prizes in this year's astrophotography competition, organised ...

Earlier this month, the Ukrainian Navy used an uncrewed vessel to attack and sink an uncrewed naval robot operated by Russian ...

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat ...

Tiny bursts of exercise once an hour could boost your cognition at school or at work, adding to the evidence of how important ...

Texts from imperial China suggest that some crimes were punishable with unusual amputations and a 700-year-old skeleton ...

Plug-in solar panels offer reduced bills and can help boost renewable energy on the UK's grid, but concerns around their ...

Researchers have watched a huge crater form on the lunar surface, and its widespread effects could help inform future ...