Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a real-life version from carbon-fibre and tungsten ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance ...

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an ...

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional ...

There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US – it may have been a ...

With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement ...

Helping yourself get to sleep isn’t just about avoiding screens before bedtime. From cognitive shuffling to sleep-restriction ...

Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have ...

Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to ...