We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, ...

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe ...

Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first published in 1995, remains an ...

Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core body temperature may help to preserve them ...

So why are there no moons with natural satellites of their own? Matt Bothwell University of Cambridge, UK. The very short ...

A universe with half-speed light might never produce New Scientist readers capable of posing this question, notes one reader ...

What happens when geophysicists, mathematicians and computer scientists collaborate to solve the planet's most complex subsurface challenges? Meet the innovators driving a revolution in how we see the ...

Inside the Antimatter Factory at CERN, scientists are answering one of the oldest questions in science: Why is there ...

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that ...

A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD explains the sharp rise ...

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing ...

Neurologist Emily Rogalski studies "superagers" – people in their 80s or 90s with unusually ...