With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement ...

The recent erratic behaviour of the polar jet stream isn't out of the ordinary, researchers have found by compiling data from ...

Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton now be on display in ...

Helping yourself get to sleep isn’t just about avoiding screens before bedtime. From cognitive shuffling to sleep-restriction ...

It is uncanny how human fears about robots mirror those about immigrants. But maybe they aren't out to take our jobs or ...

A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent ...

Weight-loss surgery seems to lower the risk of colorectal cancer by changing where bile acids enter the small intestine, ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...

A study into a spider species in which the females are prone to eat the males after sex is welcomed into Feedback's new ...

When driving over hills, is it more fuel-efficient to accelerate downhill or maintain a steady speed? And why is our heart ...

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...