When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In ...

Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

Over the last decade, since the work of a shadowy government program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification ...

Ancient metal use: Scientists found early microbes used molybdenum and tungsten over 3 billion years ago, overturning the 'tungsten first' theory. Scarcity solutions: Hydrothermal vents likely ...

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

Alien: Earth's Emmy-winning composer Jeff Russo said he used an Aztec death whistle to help create the music for the series' ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

Eric Davis is a physicist who has worked with government-affiliated research bodies, lending some credibility to his ...

A Nasa-funded study has found that some of Earth’s earliest microbes used molybdenum more than 3 billion years ago. The finding suggests complex metabolism emerged earlier than thought and may guide ...

In Islamic tradition creation describes a universe populated by three main intelligent beings created by Allah: Angels (from light), Jinn (from fire), and Humans (from earth clay). The Jinn were ...

For years, the Fermi Paradox made one idea seem obvious: in a universe this huge, alien civilizations should be everywhere.

To mark David Attenborough turning 100, New Scientist staff have been set a tricky task: pick your favourite of his many ...