The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, and unprecedented ...

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

A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

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 ...

Oestrogen levels fluctuate throughout a woman's menstrual cycle, which may impact how efficiently a drug that targets the ...

A rare variant of a gene called TP53 means Tracy Hutchinson has an extreme risk of developing cancer anywhere in her body, ...

A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon ...

A gene therapy that instructs cells to produce more of an anti-ageing protein called klotho is about to be offered by a US ...

Around a third of people are able to almost fully rebuild their brains after a stroke and uncovering why is pointing the way ...

The brain undergoes a full renovation during menopause. Although these changes are profound, we’re learning that the ...

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