A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make taking X-rays and CT scans far ...

With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a real-life version from carbon-fibre and tungsten ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance ...

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an ...

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional ...