A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

When deciding whether to let people await trial at home or in jail, US judges can use a risk score algorithm. But it often makes harsher recommendations than humans do ...

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating samples brought back to Earth ...

Kazuo Ishiguro’s heartbreaking dystopian novel of young love and organ donation has been superbly adapted for the stage ...

New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their effect on the climate ...

Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the ...

Creatine is commonly associated with athletes and bodybuilders, but the popular supplement seems to have broad benefits on ...

Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping ...

Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research now shows it breaks down ...

Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group now dates back 550 million years ...

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...

In the first hearing test of live baleen whales, the animals detected much higher frequency sounds than expected, forcing ...