SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up...

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the Environmental Protection...

You've probably heard that you should feel a certain muscle working when you do an exercise. Your biceps should burn a little when...

Somewhere, out in the cold depths of space, there is a space rock that could destroy a large chunk...

The New Scientist Book Club moved from reading about the emancipation of a sex robot in January, with Sierra...

Russell stood with his hand on the door, wondering whether to go in. It just wasn’t his scene. He...

The average person is keeping nine types of secrets, ranging from having told a lie to covert romantic desires....

In a narrow strip of land along the Andes mountain range in central Chile, an Indigenous community...

Residents of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic endured a formidable winter in 2025-2026, marked by several high-impact storms and prolonged stretches of cold temperatures that left parts of the Chesapeake Bay frozen over. Longtime residents may recall a winter nearly 50...

A patch made of stem cells from donor placentas has been used to treat fetuses in the womb with...