Mars is often touted as the next planet people could inhabit, but the amount of radiation we would be exposed to would ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Rachel Kushner’s Booker prize-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, a thrilling ...

The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

The climate impact of flights taken by the super-rich rose sharply from 2019 to 2023, fuelling calls for a carbon tax on private aviation ...

Mixtures of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping them into thin channels between semipermeable membranes, ...

This year’s average global temperature is almost certain to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial times – a milestone that should ...

The Impossible Man by Patchen Barss salutes Roger Penrose's groundbreaking work in physics and mathematics while challenging ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. In our latest glimpse ...

Shapes created by vortices in water often fall apart, but an odd quantum fluid made from ultracold atoms could support vortex ...