Your hands will cause your mug of tea to cool more quickly, say our readers - but be careful not to burn yourself as you cup it Logically, your hands will cool the tea faster. The tea will be at about ...

August is traditionally a quiet month in publishing, and this one is no different. But there are still science-fiction gems ...

Set in an empty world after a superflu pandemic wipes out most of humanity, Peter Heller's The Dog Stars - the August read ...

Protein is everywhere, but studies – mostly in non-human animals – suggest that limiting our intake could extend our lifespan ...

In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot Hig, ...

The total solar eclipse on 12 August will only be visible to a lucky few, but eclipses happen all over the world – here are ...

Global warming may make it too hot for malaria-carrying mosquitoes to survive in parts of Africa, but could also shift the ...

A treatment that turns off the bit of the immune system that goes haywire in Guillain-Barré syndrome may be the first ...

Paradoxically, suppressing wildfires has also made European countries more vulnerable to huge blazes like those seen in ...

The mummies of two people who lived in Chile more than 400 years ago carry DNA from smallpox, providing the first molecular ...

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

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