The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...

The billionaires behind Facebook and Google can do more than hand out glitzy awards for science. They should fund the ...

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation released its annual Allergy Capitals list in March. The report uses data from the 100 ...

Experiments point to how scientists can strengthen or weaken memories, which may eventually lead to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease or PTSD.

The fata morgana on my horizon was the illusion that science is a quiet, orderly, aristocratic thing. Science happened in ...

Researchers at McMaster University have identified six key factors in the first three years of life that influence the trajectory of obesity in South Asian children.

Magicians have long exploited quirks in our perception of the world to make us experience the impossible. Now, cognitive psychology is exploring how they do it and revealing fresh insights into how ou ...

Organoids are made to model human organs and are promising for research and therapy, but there are limitations in their ...

Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups ...

A study in Marine Pollution Bulletin reveals record-high marine litter in deep waters, highlighting the urgent environmental ...