At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques have identified two ...

Particles of light travelling through a maze of devices seem to have passed a famous test for entanglement – without being ...

The tendency for AIs to give misleading answers may be in part down to certain training techniques, which encourage models to ...

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it ...

When people were randomised to receive either a placebo or Ozempic, they became biologically younger with the latter drug ...

The discovery that brain ageing may be driven by jammed-up protein factories could lead to better ways to help us stay sharp ...

Neuromorphic cameras, which only record data when a pixel's brightness changes, may be advantageous for capturing extremely ...

Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is ...

In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our protagonist boards ...

Tattoos may have been widespread in prehistory, with scientists discovering a plethora of body art on a pastoralist who died ...

Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with a plant called Etuberosum, and ...

A giant stick insect species found in Australia’s Wet Tropics named Acrophylla alta can reach 40 centimetres in length and ...