On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the ... We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers.

Scientists in Australia have successfully produced the world’s first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a feat they hailed as a “ground-breaking achievement” that could ...

Climate scientists are increasingly alarmed about losing access to essential data about the planet as the administration of US president Donald Trump pursues an overhaul of US federal agencies.

Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for monitoring volcanoes ...

More than 1,000 EPA employees, including scientists involved in climate change research and policy, have been put on immediate notice by the Trump administration. Prior to taking office ...

Orders from the Trump administration affecting science and health in the United States — and from there, the world — are coming thick and fast, affecting a myriad of institutional and personal ...

Laboratory and animal studies suggest the substances have potential health hazards, but so far, scientists have struggled to pinpoint connections with such things as level of accumulation ...

President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist, to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). If confirmed, this will be Jacobs' second stint ...

"Black holes really do sit at the frontier of human understanding." Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the ...

A book called "Mars Project" originated as a technical appendix to a science fiction novel, both of which were written by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun. The technical appendix was ...

President Donald Trump has named Neil Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist who was found to have violated scientific integrity policies during the “Sharpiegate” scandal of the first Trump ...