Bioreactors housing methane-eating bacteria could offer a portable, off-grid solution for soaking up methane leaks from sites like landfills and coal mines ...
Having a fresh cut or sunburn on your skin when you first try a new food could increase the chances of developing an allergy to that food, suggests a new study led by the Yale School of Medicine (YSM).
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are commonly found in the bodies of short-beaked common dolphins that get stranded on UK beaches, and are linked to the animals' risk of infectious diseases ...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club's thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead ...
In this extract from the classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet Ringworld's protagonist Louis Wu, as he travels a future Earth ...