Washing your clothing on high temperature cycles may not completely disinfect it, researchers have found, because washing ...

Several recent scientific findings, including signs of life on an exoplanet and 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf have caused ...

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

The giant magnolia snail was thought to be extinct before living specimens were found in southern Vietnam in 2012. There are ...

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

Readers explain that a water droplet is subject to many invisible forces that cause it to snake down a windowpane ...

In his series The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson highlights the tension between an unfolding environmental ...

I was lucky enough to watch a preview of Ocean with David Attenborough recently. Due for cinema release globally on 8 May ...

When politics and science align, it is easy to think science is apolitical. But the situation in the US today shows how ...

It can be difficult to work out which books count as climate fiction. Emily H. Wilson reads the shortlist for the Climate ...

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...

A Peruvian farmer's case against energy giant RWE will be decided shortly. But it has already made history, says ...