An update to an experiment run by Henry Cavendish in 1773 could be a cheaper and faster way to spot a potential dark matter ...

An infestation of caterpillars can make an oak tree postpone when it opens its leaves next year by three days, wrong-footing ...

National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly available, but fears of ...

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, reveals how a book that was originally intended to be ...

An advanced version of the famous double-slit experiment has directly measured a single photon in two places at once – or at least, that’s the claim made by a team of physicists who say these results ...

Should you really be drinking eight glasses of water a day? What about reaching for a sports drink after exercise?

Uranus’s outermost two rings are surprisingly dissimilar, which opens up a mystery about the tiny moons and moonlets that ...

Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthetic biology, but divided ...

A genomic study may have revealed how Greenland sharks live for centuries and yet rarely get cancer. These sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) are slow-moving dwellers of the deep that can reach more ...

A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time, but it could help ...

A cryptocurrency that aims to avoid the disastrous energy consumption of bitcoin is actually using 18 times more energy than ...

In this extract from Luminous, the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet a mysterious robot discovered in a ...