Research, Space & Discovery
One reader delves into whether or not fish can see air – and question if humans can strictly see water
Polio, Plumbing and Vaccines: When a Half-Truth Becomes a Bad History Lesson
NASA has picked Blue Origin to build its next Mars telecommunications orbiter, awarding a $700 million contract to Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company.
Inside a lab at the University of Texas at Dallas, researchers have re-created a small-scale ocean environment where they can make waves build, break and crash into one another.
Songs are closely linked to narrative and languageThe postHow Music Sparks Imaginationappeared first onNautilus.
Readers offer different perspectives on the fate of life on Earth should the sun vanish – and there may be hope for some
Penn Tests Ultra-Fast FLASH Proton Therapy in First U.S. Precision Human Trial
After a decade of waiting, Creative Director Al Hope says Alien Isolation 2 "feels like coming home".
Fossilized bones can reveal a wealth of details about animals, including their size, appearance, what they ate and any injuries they may have suffered. In a paper published in the journal Royal Societ...
People are born old in their graves and get more robust over life, only to shrink into babies who are pushed into their mother’s womb. The ambitious Under Story conjures a disconcerting, “backwards” w...
Poor school attendance can negatively affect young people's behavior and future health. It is a growing public health concern because rates of persistent school absence have risen considerably and rem...
In Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi's The Ghost of the Mountains, the near-spiritual myth of the elusive snow leopard becomes a way of understanding all that we stand to lose from the forces of climate cha...
Are these floating houses in Amsterdam’s IJburg district the shape of things to come? Check out Floating Futures, a new series by photojournalist Alessandro Gandolfi
More from New Scientist Explore the latest news, articles and features Environment Why the extremes of climate breakdown will continue to take us by surprise Comment Comment Adam Kucharski would like ...
Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found evidence of exocomets—comets in other solar systems—orbiting a young star similar to our sun. The observations point to a possible mechanism for how...
Heat waves claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in Europe's capital cities this summer as they experienced record temperatures.
Scientists have long wondered how cells organized into sheets begin to move together to form organs, especially when the sheets form closed, sphere-like surfaces and tissues with no edges to direct mo...
A moon may once have been consumed by Venus, after existing alongside the planet for up to 1.7 billion years
New research involving more than 1 million Australian feedlot cattle has found that the strongest predictors of death from bovine respiratory disease (BRD) are established before animals even enter th...
Researchers have described a new species of leafless flowering plant found on the forest floor of a national park in western Thailand, and its otherworldly appearance has earned it a fittingly dramati...