Evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapiro on the hunt for ancient DNA and her groundbreaking de-extinction and ...

SpaceX claims the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket will happen “within days”, but the Federal Aviation Administration ...

Low levels of a particular compound in faeces could be a sign of endometriosis – and supplementation of that compound might even help control the condition. Affecting nearly 200 million people ...

Autonomous taxis are already operating on US streets, while Elon Musk has spent years promising a self-driving car and ...

An ancient spear-throwing tool enabled prehistoric hunters to boost the distance they could launch a feathered projectile – but the unexpected negative effects of gravity on the tool may explain why ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. One of the most important factors in the evolution of ...

UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the extinction of millions of ...

A new technique uses glowing molecules, laser light and microscopes to measure distances as minuscule as 0.1 nanometres – the ...

The discovery that a small blue blob of neurons, the locus coeruleus, controls your mode of thinking suggests ways to ...

Rachel Kushner is the author of Creation Lake, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as well as the bestselling ...

France would have had hundreds of outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu on poultry farms in the past year had it not vaccinated ducks against the disease for the first time, according to a modelling study.

In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet undercover operative Sadie Smith as she secretly reads the emails of ...