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

A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make taking X-rays and CT scans far ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies ...