Renowned climate scientist James Hansen says the developing super El Niño has already "blown past" previous events with ...

The cooling of the North Atlantic is creating waviness in the jet stream and high-pressure ridging over Europe, a study finds ...

Intense fires are already burning in Indonesia, and there could be much worse to come as the Super El Niño ramps up ...

Severe burns are often treated with synthetic products ahead of skin graft surgery, but there is evidence that a product made ...

Biogerontologists are exploring the upper limit for human life. A recent study has it verging on two centuries – but ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Peter Heller's post-apocalyptic novel The Dog Stars in August. He joined head of ...

Bird flu. Bird flu is a viral infection that has evolved to affect mammals, including humans. The strain H5N1 was detected in ...

A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has produced positive results in a final-stage trial involving skin cancer, raising hopes ...

Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter – or ...

For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large ...

Official' projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly ...

To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest micro-napping ...