Parts of plants that are usually wasted, from kiwi skin to squash seeds, contain more fibre than the parts of the plant we do ...

In this extract from Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet some of the ...

Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way.

Physics is generally built on observations, then the maths that supports them comes later. Columnist Karmela ...

From subconscious finger sniffing to rats driving cars, New Scientist staff have reported on many weird, wild or utterly ...

Forever chemicals are renowned for their durability and their non-stick properties, but they persist for years in the ...

Quantum mechanics stands out by being probabilistic and a new analysis suggests that this property can be traced unexpectedly ...

Breathing out after birth switches off the ability of tissues to regenerate, a study in mice suggests. But the pathway seems ...

On fast flights across the Atlantic, the body clocks of Manx shearwaters get out of sync with local time, leading them to veer away from the most direct flight path ...

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, who is celebrated in today’s Google doodle, was the discoverer of caffeine and the first person to isolate quinine, but his contribution to chemistry is often overlooked. He ...

The BBC has another game-changing hit in Blue Planet III, says Michael Le Page, with David Attenborough narrating and a smart ...

My lovely father died of Alzheimer's last year, and since then, I've been digging into the disease to try to understand what ...