The decision to proceed with the Jackdaw gas field will make the UK complicit in pushing up greenhouse gas emissions and give ...

It's now possible to convert a handful of smells into electronic signals that can be sent through the internet ...

A surgeon has told New Scientist they have performed a transplant on someone with a complete spinal cord injury using a piece ...

Depression has long been linked to chemical imbalances, but many cases may actually be related to disrupted body clocks that ...

Researchers have trapped a positron for the first time and plan to use it look for answers to one of particle physics’ ...

Male mosquitoes infected with a parasite have been released in Barcelona to reduce the number of mosquitoes that can transmit ...

Cohen’s influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of ...

Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues ...

El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen, ...

We have long had a seemingly simple question about neutrinos: how much do they weigh? Now, a gigantic experiment in China is ...

A row over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts ...

There is a growing backlash against the way AI companies have gone about tackling mathematical problems – and now some ...