Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip specially designed for AI – to ...

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a ...

The New Scientist Book Club continued to think about the inner workings of the mind with our November read, moving from ...

Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...

Bethany Jacobs' debut science fiction novel, These Burning Stars, won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her books also include On ...

Iain M Banks published his debut novel The Wasp Factory in 1984. He went on to write 28 more novels, with his literary ...

Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at this time could be at least partly to blame ...

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment ...

New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and cure once-fatal ...