Some gut bacteria recycle discarded sex hormones, like oestrogens, back into the body. The level of these bacteria seems to ...

While Earth’s climate has changed many times in history, there is unequivocal scientific consensus that our world is now heating up at an unprecedented pace, driven by human activities such as the ...

A small comet has been spotted slowing down and then speeding up again – but in the opposite direction, which we have never ...

Forty years ago, the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl sent plumes of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Now, New Scientist has gained exclusive access to learn how vital work to decontaminate t ...

If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation shut down, the knock-on effects could release hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2, raising global temperatures even further ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Chernobyl lay on the path to the capital Kyiv. When the plant was occupied by Russian ...

The astronauts of the Artemis II mission around the moon have made it home safely to Earth, marking the end of a triumphant ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

A woman with three different autoimmune conditions had all of them treated simultaneously by genetically modifying her immune ...

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms together really works.