From Becky Chambers to Audrey Niffenegger, there are some heavy hitters with new sci-fi novels out this month – and a hefty ...

Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat ...

A subtle change in household power habits could eliminate the need to build new gas power plants, say researchers studying ...

In cities such as London, trees are already struggling with hot and dry summers. Botanists warn that we need to start ...

We’ve long expected animals to move to cooler habitats as climate change bites, but it now appears that many are actually ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil found in China shows that many anatomical features seen in birds also evolved independently ...

In the Pacific Northwest, from Oregon and Washington and into Canada, El Niño is expected to bring drier-than-normal weather, ...

As New Scientist celebrates its 70th anniversary, climate change, AI and misinformation have heightened the need for rigorous ...

When scientists were asked to review papers for a conference without using AI tools, many of them ignored the request and ...

Extreme weather could damage harvests worldwide, but the answer is more local food production, not stockpiling, Katie White ...

Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve ...

A 3D shape that can tile 3D space, leaving no gaps and never forming a repeating pattern, has been discovered using an AI ...