Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications ...

All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected the elderly. But there ...

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

Alzheimer's-related cognitive decline could be slowed by taking as few as 3000 steps a day, possibly due to the effects of regular exercise on brain health ...

For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great white sharks, using a ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy but effective treaties ...

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...