AI-powered deepfake videos with altered facial expressions can display realistic heartbeats through skin colour changes, ...

Washing your clothing on high temperature cycles may not completely disinfect it, researchers have found, because washing ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

Several recent scientific findings, including signs of life on an exoplanet and 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf have caused ...

Research aiming to answer the great mystery of how consciousness arises is continuing to spark debate, with arguments over ...

There’s no doubt that doing some long-distance running improves our fitness, but at what point does it become too much, asks ...

The giant magnolia snail was thought to be extinct before living specimens were found in southern Vietnam in 2012. There are ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...

Feedback notes the proliferation of AI company logos, and agrees with one blogger's claim that many bear a striking ...

In his series The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson highlights the tension between an unfolding environmental ...

We should protect Earth's rivers and forests with laws. But it is another matter to recast them as actual life forms, as ...

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary ...