What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

The Alzheimer’s field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginning outside the brain many ...

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Physicist Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky, challen ...

Taking psilocybin – the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms – eased symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder among ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to make. But why is a slow, ...

Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...

As technology outpaces human evolution, New Scientist CoLab examines the tension between our social instincts and modern ...

The view of the horizon on a disc-shaped world would depend on the unlikely physics by which you believe it works, explains ...

Whether you call it a vibe shift or a paradigm shift, physicists must be ready to challenge their fundamental understanding ...

If this sounds like a review of a new game, it is, sort of. LANDER 23 is a real-world stealth game from London-based company ...