In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing ...

Mars is often touted as the next planet people could inhabit, but the amount of radiation we would be exposed to would ...

There may be more bird flu cases in humans in the US than we previously thought. Health departments in two states took blood ...

The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Rachel Kushner’s Booker prize-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, a thrilling ...

The pressure of a watching audience can have positive or negative effects on human performance, and it turns out the same is true of our closest relatives. Christen Lin at Kyoto University, Japan, and ...

Allowing for moves that create quantum superpositions makes a quantum version of a Rubik’s cube incredibly complex, but not impossible to solve ...

Elephants are masters at using a hose – considered a complex tool because of its flexibility, length and the physics of flowing water. Researchers studying three Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

Mixtures of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping them into thin channels between semipermeable membranes, ...

This year’s average global temperature is almost certain to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial times – a milestone that should ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...