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 ...

Adults and AI models fail to recognise messages with harmful intent expressed with Gen Alpha slang or memes, raising concerns ...

A simulation of the "aerial screw" designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1480 suggests it would use less power than modern drone ...

Over the past 150 years, the rise in Caesarean sections and changes in diet could have led to smaller pelvises among women – which may make vaginal birth more difficult but could also reduce common co ...

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 ...

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 ...

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