Author: New Scientist - News

Storing carbon underground where it quickly solidifies could be a simple way to prevent toxic chemicals used in fracking contaminating groundwater

The discovery of a 1.8 million-year-old pinky bone in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge suggests that our ancestors had already come down from the trees by that time

As we gear up to let domestic robots into our homes it is time to rethink what a home is for – and how they need to change to accommodate machines

Grim find of 26 mutilated bodies in Germany is earliest evidence of mass torture, challenging the view of rural harmony among early Europeans

A metal under pressure has broken the record for the warmest superconductor yet – it could work at Antarctic temperatures rather than those found in the depths of space

Some planets orbit their stars right around the star's equator, while others go at wonky angles – and it's all down to the star's size

Climate change is bad for everyone in the long term, but a new model suggests it could make the rich nations even richer to begin with

Central Asia's glaciers, which supply water to one of the planet's largest irrigated areas, are melting fast, highlighting a worrying global trend in ice loss

A whistled form of Turkish used to communicate across mountain valleys shows that it's not just the left side of the brain that processes language

Historical data on how plants move over the course of the day seems to show that they line up with the position of the moon