Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London
Dissected and preserved sea life specimens give visitors a thrilling, slightly shallow glimpse of a hidden world
Bots on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk are ruining psychology studies
Psychologists use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform to study our behaviour, but now bots are spoiling things by pretending to be human
This man spent months alone underground – and it warped his mind
Michel Siffre’s extraordinary self-experiments in a cave with no light would never be allowed now – but revealed strange truths about how we perceive time
The Meg: Real Megalodon shark would eat Jason Statham for breakfast
Jason Statham’s new film The Meg looks gloriously silly and good luck to it, but it got us thinking about what its giant prehistoric shark was really like and why it died out
New Scientist Live: sneak preview of this year’s mission to Mercury
It’s time to return to the planet Mercury. At New Scientist Live, Emma Bunce will be revealing all about the BepiColombo mission set to launch in October
New Zealand becomes the latest country to ban plastic bags
People in New Zealand currently use about 150 plastic bags each a year, but the country now plans to phase them out within the next six months
Feedback: What would happen if Earth was made of blueberries?
Thanks to science, we now have an answer. Plus: a stolen shark, mapping the Kessel Run, TripAdvisor reviews of migrating animals, and more
We have measured the speed of death and it’s 2 millimetres an hour
Biologists have watched death spread across a living cell for the first time, and discovered that it travels in a steady wave in the same way that wildfires do
High-speed electrons prove Einstein was right about the speed of light
Albert Einstein predicted that the speed of light does not change just because you are moving – and now two experiments have shown just how right he was
Allergy explosion: The truth behind the most common myths
You can grow into and out of allergies your whole life; they come in groups; women are more allergy prone... Wild ideas about allergies abound, but which should you believe?