Visible only from the sky, these giant drawings of animals, plants, and geometric shapes stretch across the landscape with eerie precision. Read on.

Baffled and discouraged, the two men gave up plans for follow-up experiments. Other physicists were even more dismayed. The ...

Any quakes, or even rumbles from meteorite impacts, propagate outward from their point of origin, bouncing around inside a planet or moon or star before stilling to quietness. The way they travel ...

As seven-time grand slam singles champion Venus Williams said upon her comeback to the sport late last month: “Do you know ...

Now, scientists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and University of Vienna are adding a kind of time travel to the list.

The unfettered flow of wastewater from the Tijuana River has not only been threatening Southern California’s beaches, but it ...

With South Australia's harmful algal bloom devastating coastal communities, a University of South Australia tourism expert is ...

Hidden deep in the Arctic, two scientists built a strange device from aluminum and intention. What happened next—flashes of light, strange energy, and eerie dread—still defies explanation ...

Time travel has long been a subject of fascination in science fiction, but recent scientific endeavors suggest that it might ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. We liked it – but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction ...