Frankenstein’s hunchback assistant, Igor, was not in the original novel by Mary Shelley but has become as famous as the mad ...

Hungarian American actor Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó — better known as horror icon Bela Lugosi — is fittingly celebrated as ...

Half a century of advances in biomedical science paved the way for today’s powerful weight-loss drugs like Ozempic – so what was that journey like for the scientists involved? Joel Habener of ...

Here’s what members of the New Scientist editorial team are keenest to catch at the world’s greatest festival of ideas and discovery, which runs from 12 to 13 October I also cannot wait to see ...

An ambitious effort to understand the Earth’s climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures than scientists previously realized ...

An international team of scientists published a peer-reviewed paper Thursday saying genetic evidence indicates the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a natural spillover from an ...

One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In one such case, EPA scientist Sarah Gallagher says she thought the agency should consider the chemical as toxic to fetal development while another official wanted to classify it as a lower ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) internal watchdog has found that top agency officials retaliated against three staffers for expressing different scientific opinions. The employees ...

18, 2024, in the journal Nature. (LOFAR Collaboration/Martijn Oei/Caltech via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. More than three years ago, a small group of government ...

Scientists identified six different types of love in a new brain study. Each type activates different parts of the brain depending on the kind of human experience. Researchers explain which type ...