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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Though the El Niño is still months from its peak, it is already breaking many records. Two main factors are behind how it ...

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

The phrase “survival of the fittest” is so closely associated with Darwinism that many people assume Charles Darwin himself wrote it. He didn’t – it was foisted on him by a contemporary, Herbert ...

Taking hormone replacement therapy during the perimenopause or early menopause may reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke. A study of nearly 2800 women over 20 years suggests that starting HRT ...

An endless stream of distractions, from email notifications to overlapping deadlines, can make focus slip away. Columnist ...