SAN FRANCISCO—They came to testify to the life-saving benefits of medical research. They came to explain how scientific discoveries avert disasters and keep skyscrapers standing during earthquakes.

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa’s isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one of its nine team members of becoming violent. The Conversation Africa ...

Leanne Cowie, powerhouse drummer in Aussie punk legends The Scientists during the ’80s, has died. No cause of death has been announced; she was in her 60s. Kim Salmon, frontman of The Scientists ...

PARIS, March 20 (Reuters) - A French scientist has been denied entry into the United States, apparently because the scientist had expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's ...

De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

I have something of a reputation as a party-pooper in the New Scientist office. At our weekly meeting to discuss the latest and greatest ideas in science, colleagues will eagerly describe some ...

Studies on Antarctica have documented how temperatures, glaciers, oceans and wildlife are reacting to the warming consequences of fossil fuel emissions. A place this remote and isolated makes a ...

Researchers were stunned to find that bacteria exposed to microplastics develop stronger defenses against antibiotics. This unexpected discovery suggests that plastic pollution isn’t just an ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, a team of Italian scientists have successfully frozen light and demonstrated that it can behave like a supersolid. This discovery, published in the ‘Nature’ journal ...