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

With progress at COP climate meetings stalling, 57 countries took part in the first of a new series of conferences aiming to ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Robots can now run a half-marathon faster than humans and are rapidly homing in on the 100-metre sprint record. But why are ...

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

A revolutionary cancer treatment is now being applied to a wide range of autoimmune disorders. Columnist Michael Le Page ...

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