An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the ...

A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts warn that the harsh ...

The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...

Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the ...

We will finally begin to untangle Mercury’s mysteries in 2026, as the BepiColombo spacecraft descend into orbit around the solar system’s innermost planet. BepiColombo consists of a pair of spacecraft ...

Around 175,000 years ago, Neanderthals ventured deep inside a cave in what is now France, broke off stalagmites and used them to build mysterious circular structures. Later on, bears moved in and ...

Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pain. Many of these claims ...

A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry ...

Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel beyond the solar system ...

A 500-kilometre-wide object in a similar orbit to Pluto challenges our assumptions about small bodies in the outer solar ...

To mark David Attenborough turning 100, New Scientist staff have been set a tricky task: pick your favourite of his many ...