Colorectal cancers will soon be the number one cause of cancer death among people under 50. Could changes in lifestyle and ...

John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether it’s time travel or a moon made of cheese ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...

The second ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen ...

Some researchers think OpenAI's giant and expensive latest model is a sign that tech companies cannot keep making progress by ...

Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as ...

In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel ...

NASA's newest space telescope will scan the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths to help astronomers better ...

Researchers who have been given access to Google's new AI "co-scientist" tool are enthusiastic about its potential, but it ...

There may be logic in keeping spacecraft as sterile as possible, but this could inadvertently be affecting astronauts' health ...

Spending more days in extreme heat seems to be linked to markers of increased biological ageing in people aged 56 and over, ...

A comparison of 263 species supports the idea that large animals have higher rates of cancer than smaller ones. But the ...