The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, and unprecedented ...

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one ...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

A rare variant of a gene called TP53 means Tracy Hutchinson has an extreme risk of developing cancer anywhere in her body, ...

A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation ...

Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might ...

The New Scientist Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract from its second chapter, ...

The world of quantum video games is vast – there are hundreds that are either inspired by quantum mechanics or use quantum ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

Large fruits and seeds buried under volcanic ash nearly 75 million years ago upend the idea that flowering plants only came ...

IBM's latest chip packs in twice as many transistors as the current state-of-the-art chip by adding a second layer of silicon ...