Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was ...

The ocean floor is a vast source of potentially revolutionary scientific discovery – yet it remains largely inaccessible. For ...

Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a ...

Raising children appears to keep the brain young, potentially acting as a buffer against cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s ...

Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might ...

A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little ...

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have ...