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

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

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.

Earth's earliest continents may have set the chemical stage for life by regulating boron levels in ancient oceans, a new study in Terra Nova suggests.

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 ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

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 ...

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

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...