In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance ...

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US – it may have been a ...

A newly discovered species of dinosaur is now on display at London’s Natural History Museum . Researchers have named this new ...