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Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 millio...
Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still...
This 2013 book by an Indigenous botanist is a quietly urgent act of healing that forces Western scie...
Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Write...
Prize-winning young writer Hasset Kifle, 17, explores how the world of super-competitive running is ...
Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western A...
Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, b...
The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid ...
Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in ...
Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code ...
NHS England is pulling its open-source software from the internet because of fears around computer-h...
Hantavirus: Where has the deadly cruise ship outbr...
Three people have died on board the cruise ship MV Hondius due to an outbreak of hantavirus, a rare ...
Woman in cancer remission without treatment in hig...
A biopsy of a woman's cancer seems to have triggered an immune response against the tumour, putting ...
The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve i...
One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind ...
Man destined to get Alzheimer’s saved by accidenta...
Doug Whitney has a genetic mutation that means he should have developed Alzheimer’s disease decades ...
Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule...
Two quantum computers and two supercomputers teamed up to break the record on the biggest molecule y...
Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – do...
It is appealing to think something as simple as honey could cure a cold or prevent hay fever, but is...
A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we kn...
A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark t...
Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an ...
A 500-kilometre-wide object in a similar orbit to Pluto challenges our assumptions about small bodie...
300-year-old experiment could become world's best ...
An update to an experiment run by Henry Cavendish in 1773 could be a cheaper and faster way to spot ...
The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you ...
To mark David Attenborough turning 100, New Scientist staff have been set a tricky task: pick your f...
Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum dis...
A small trial found that chewing gum containing nitrate can ease the symptoms of gum disease by favo...
Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tra...
A device you attach to your underwear reveals how often you really break wind – and it’s probably mo...
