When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an ...

When it comes to supplements to stave off the effects of ageing, columnist Graham Lawton admits he is a hardened sceptic. But ...

For example, during an explosive space battle scene in Star Trek, a crew member is tossed out into space and suddenly into ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

James Wong is a botanist and science writer, with a particular interest in food crops, conservation and the environment. Trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, he shares his tiny London flat with ...

Michael Brooks is a New Scientist physics consultant. He holds a PhD in quantum physics, and works as an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is a host of the Eureka! podcast an ...

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

An analysis of supernovae argues that the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, so there is no need for dark energy to ...

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, ...

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a ...

An ancient continent that was once sandwiched between India and Madagascar now lies scattered on the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The first clues to the continent’s existence came when some parts of ...