Set in an empty world after a superflu pandemic wipes out most of humanity, Peter Heller's The Dog Stars - the August read for the New Scientist Book Club - will be released as a film later this month ...

To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think ...

An analysis of genetic samples taken from the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China, has identified a shortlist of wild animals being sold there that were the most likely source of the virus that ...

The mummies of two people who lived in Chile more than 400 years ago carry DNA from smallpox, providing the first molecular ...

We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost “ghost ancestor” inside us – and by putting all the different bits together, we ...

A tiny sensor that unfolds within the body could continuously monitor our heart activity and breathing after showing promise ...

Networks of pipes carrying chilled water have proven to be an efficient way to cool hospitals and universities. Now, they are ...

Rebecca Skloot told the story of Henrietta Lacks and how her cells were taken without her permission in a bestselling book, ...

Three problems that are out of reach for conventional computers have been cracked by quantum computers and show how important ...

Genetic tests of mammoth remains have found a stark contrast in the sex ratio between sites where the animals died naturally ...

A treatment that turns off the bit of the immune system that goes haywire in Guillain-Barré syndrome may be the first ...

A critical ocean current is unlikely to shut down before the end of this century even under the most extreme climate scenarios, according to new findings that undermine doomsday predictions of an ...