An amoeba living in a Californian hot spring is thriving above 60°C, a threshold previously thought deadly to complex life ...

As the world warms, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are escaping from frozen sediments. But with new monitoring tools, we can ...

Children as young as 8 in the US are being prescribed off-label GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, sparking debate about the potential ...

Commentators say the probability of machines wiping us out ranges from 0 to over 95 per cent. Columnist Jacob Aron explains why you shouldn't trust any of those numbers ...

Henley Spiers took the top award in the annual contest, with shots of guillemots, penguins and a protective tawny frogmouth ...

According to Newton’s third law, all actions are paired with reciprocal reactions. But breaking this principle allowed an ...

Europe faces incredibly harsh winters and unrelenting droughts if the vital AMOC ocean current fails – but when disaster will ...

Starship's next test flight will be its first orbital mission. The craft will also release working Starlink V3 satellites for ...

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 ...