This week, explore a medieval manuscript, spy an underwater volcano ready to erupt off the US West Coast, encounter T. rex’s ...

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The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.

Many of us are guilty of stereotyping librarians as bespectacled scolds always telling students to keep quiet. But what a lot ...

Whether you’re curious about exploring the galaxy or the ways our own history may have gone differently, there’s a sci-fi ...

With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...

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Trump's new pick to be the nation's chief public health spokesperson would likely promote bad science in the hope it would be ...

Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time.

When I first started fourth grade, I despised reading. Now, that very thought sounds like sacrilege and I’ve gone on amazing ...

Mercury is released by environmental and human-driven processes. And some forms, specifically methylmercury, are toxic to ...