As it turns out, beneficial mutations are far more common than a 50-year-old theory predicted, but the world changes too fast ...

When most people imagine scientists discovering new species, they probably still picture an expedition into the unknown. A ...

The team designed a robot to test their results and found that the most efficient movement closely matched those of fish that ...

Interview with Ilia Delio on Pope Leo's first encyclical, focused on the challenges posed by artificial intelligence.

Imagine slipping into a multiplayer VR version of Grand Theft Auto, racing cars against players scattered across the world.

Donald Hoffman’s interface theory claims space-time may be more like a VR dashboard than reality itself—and some physics may ...

Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the New Scientist Book Club’s read for June to ...

Cognitive dissonance, the mental distress felt by people who hold two or more conflicting beliefs simultaneously, offers some ...

A new study suggests Ganymede—our neighborhood's biggest moon—still has a hot, churning core cranking out its unique magnetic ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Carlson's claim that "there's no evidence at all" for human evolution from single-cell organisms is a strong statement, and flies in the face of both the nature of scientific evidence and the vast ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...