The total solar eclipse on 12 August will only be visible to a lucky few, but eclipses happen all over the world – here are ...

Set in an empty world after a superflu pandemic wipes out most of humanity, Peter Heller's The Dog Stars - the August read ...

Peter Heller is the author of the novels The Guide, The River, Celine, The Painter and The Dog Stars, as well as four non-fiction books, including Kook: What Surfing Taught Me Abo ...

The mummies of two people who lived in Chile more than 400 years ago carry DNA from smallpox, providing the first molecular ...

We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost “ghost ancestor” inside us – and by putting all the different bits together, we ...

Genetic tests of mammoth remains have found a stark contrast in the sex ratio between sites where the animals died naturally ...

In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot Hig, ...

To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think ...

A tiny sensor that unfolds within the body could continuously monitor our heart activity and breathing after showing promise ...

A treatment that turns off the bit of the immune system that goes haywire in Guillain-Barré syndrome may be the first ...

Rebecca Skloot told the story of Henrietta Lacks and how her cells were taken without her permission in a bestselling book, ...

Three problems that are out of reach for conventional computers have been cracked by quantum computers and show how important ...