Rocks in some parts of the UK have the potential to produce natural hydrogen, but it remains unclear whether the gas is ...

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help ...

One of the world’s leading nuclear technology and security companies wants to highlight the equal opportunities and flexible ...

Tech CEOs and politicians alike are preparing for the day that superintelligent AI takes over, whilst failing to deal with ...

Assigning certain sizes, shapes and positions of bubbles to characters within Morse and binary codes means messages could be ...

Bogong moths are the first invertebrates known to navigate using the night sky during annual migrations to highland caves ...

Restricting calories has been linked to living longer in many studies, and now it seems that the drug rapamycin has nearly ...

Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones.

From spiders to scorpions, some 1000 different invertebrate species are traded globally as pets. This is bad for biodiversity ...

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

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...