NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to ensure their offspring ...

Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories in Canada has ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

It will be some months before the true toll of Europe's worst-ever heatwave is confirmed, but researchers can estimate a ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

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

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

Aya Koda's Tree is an account of the late writer's visits to Japan's most famous, and ancient, trees. Featured in Wim Wenders ...

Unlikely, says one reader – a fly's path is often dictated by whirling air currents, and don't expect them to follow the same path out of your house that they took into it ...