Genetic tests of mammoth remains have found a stark contrast in the sex ratio between sites where the animals died naturally ...

A tiny sensor that unfolds within the body could continuously monitor our heart activity and breathing after showing promise ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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