The publication unveiled its annual selection of the most significant scientific and technological breakthroughs from the ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

In a lab rack that looks more like a high-end audio system than a server, clusters of human brain cells are quietly learning ...

The way humans react to AI content on the internet will likely govern how it evolves, potentially bursting an AI bubble by retreating to human-only enclaves on the web or requiring a higher level of ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Over 50 years ago, Disney released The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, a forgotten sci-fi comedy starring Kurt Russell that ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

When television is good, there's nothing better. But it's mired by homogeneity, sameness, consumerism, and violence. really ...

With a historically bad job market, phantom job listings and a loss of entry-level positions due to AI, young Philadelphians are sounding the alarm.