The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut ...

From Claire North’s new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikovsky book, there’s lots to ...

Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a ...

A sheet of fabric that is three times stronger than Kevlar could stop a bullet despite being just 1.8 millimetres thick, ...

The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain's prize-winning popular science book about neurology ...

The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the ...

In this passage from the opening of Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are exciting, but there is no reason to claim that they are evidence of alien spacecraft – ...

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy but effective treaties ...