A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation ...

The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, and unprecedented ...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

A rare variant of a gene called TP53 means Tracy Hutchinson has an extreme risk of developing cancer anywhere in her body, ...

A gene therapy that instructs cells to produce more of an anti-ageing protein called klotho is about to be offered by a US ...

Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might ...

The New Scientist Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract from its second chapter, ...

The world of quantum video games is vast – there are hundreds that are either inspired by quantum mechanics or use quantum ...

A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but ...

A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon ...