Madeleine Cuff is an environment reporter at New Scientist, covering the science of climate change, its impacts and solutions to the crisis. Her beat also ranges across wildlife, ...

There was unusual consensus amongst New Scientist Book Club members about our read for July, with readers falling over ...

A stunningly intact marine reptile named Austronaga minuta that lived around 245 million years ago may have looked like a ...

Laser-scanning surveys reveal that the ancient Aquiry civilisation was bigger than previously thought, building tens of ...

First Annie Jacobsen laid out a fictional scenario for nuclear war. Now her new book, Biological War: A scenario, imagines a ...

NASA researcher Heidi Becker has photographed sublime sights around Jupiter that have never been seen before, from its ...

The remains of an orca-sized ichthyosaur include evidence of what it ate – before it too got eaten by an even bigger marine ...

For years, NASA has woken its space-bound astronauts with playlists chosen from classics of the time. The musical line-up was ...

Nysa was first spotted more than 150 years ago, but only now are we finally figuring out its weird shape and mysterious ...

The moon is about 384,400 kilometres from Earth right now and our days are about 24 hours long. The moon pulls on Earth’s ...

Measures like bans on advertising junk food to children are essential for instilling healthy eating at a young age, but we ...

Rats are a scourge on island wildlife all over the world. But an island off the coast of Ireland is showing how to ...