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 ...

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

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

We should protect Earth's rivers and forests with laws. But it is another matter to recast them as actual life forms, as ...

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

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

There’s no doubt that doing some long-distance running improves our fitness, but at what point does it become too much, asks ...

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary ...

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