The fish that preceded the first four-legged land animals came in a wider variety of forms than we had thought, and fossils ...

The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as ...

Stunning pictures of nebulae, stars, the moon and more took top prizes in this year's astrophotography competition, organised ...

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat ...

Earlier this month, the Ukrainian Navy used an uncrewed vessel to attack and sink an uncrewed naval robot operated by Russian ...

The theoretical physicist and New Scientist columnist talks to Alison Flood about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time - the September read for the New Scientist Book Club ...

Don’t read The Ambidextrous Universe unless you are serious about maths and physics, because Martin Gardner is very happy to make his readers work – to enthralling effect, says Jacklin Kwan ...