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Listener Youcef wants to know if we can turn the deserts green. We explore ways to bring water to the world’s driest places – from desalination to fog capture to towing icebergs. Show more Can we turn ...

At least you’ll have an exciting story to tell when you go back to school,” one federal agent told a detained 15-year-old ...

While you might typically associate this at face value with aircraft operations, it can also feature behind the scenes on more of a micro level, such as in the deployment of airside vehicles. This is ...

Multiple mistakes and miscalculations led to the sinking of the 'unsinkable' RMS Titanic 110 years ago, only a few days into its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. An artist’s rendering of the Titanic ...

This comes at a time when Annie Brackett has been killed, and Laurie Strode has fled from the Brackett House with Michael ...

A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that AI might be poised to replace a lot more jobs than previously forecast. According to researchers, a hidden mass of data reveals ...

Between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the Bay of Fundy hosts the world’s highest tides. Hikers have almost 30 trails to explore, while kayakers can explore the sandstone Hopewell Rocks formations and ...

Citing concerns about a future influx of homeless people relocating to Park County from Gallatin County, Park County ...

The best of New Scientist's festive long reads, all in one place. Discover the wild experiments physicists would do if money ...

THE latest Global Economic Outlook by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) rightly highlighted the resilience of the US and wider global economy in 2025. Yet, it also ...

The state of the climate was not great, and the icebergs were taking the brunt of the global climate. Scientists placed a 6-mile-long fiber optic cable near the seafloor beside a South Greenland ...