What does it mean when the nation’s most reliable climate information simply disappears from federal websites? For climate scientists, state and local officials, and activists, the recent ...

It is possible to make a material absorb more radiation than it has to re-emit, violating the laws of physics in a way that ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

From Austin Taylor to Nadia Afifi, there is lots to look forward to in the sci-fi out this month - including a novel which ...

As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton is now on display in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing its first images on 23 June, showing us galaxies as we’ve never seen them before.

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help itself grow ...

Last word. New Scientist's popular Last Word series gives readers the opportunity to answer each other's questions about everyday science phenomena, from the shape of scones to the evolutionary ...