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Epic images show old mines transformed into a library, ...

Amazing images of an open-air library, underground lab and design museum show th...

Ambitious story of how life shapes Earth ends superb tr...

The dynamics of how plants and animals change Earth is central to this last book...

New Scientist recommends Twisters – action sequel with ...

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

Record-breaking drill core reaches 1.2 kilometres into ...

A scientific drilling ship has burrowed further into Earth’s mantle than ever be...

A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis

James Lovelock's hypothesis that our planet is a living entity is well known. Fe...

Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nob...

After over a year of record-high global sea temperatures, the equatorial Atlanti...

Dramatic images show the dark side of cobalt mining boom

Pascal Maitre's photos from the Democratic Republic of Congo detail the problems...

Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in q...

Quartz crystals produce electricity when they are deformed by mechanical stress,...

Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric p...

This claustrophobia-inducing image is taken from photographer Martin Broen's new...

Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn

A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years...

Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth ...

Seismologists were mystified by a strange signal that persisted for nine days in...

These maps will change how you see the world

Geographer Alastair Bonnett on his pick of the most diverse maps, from a collect...

How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

Rapid erosion caused by a geological act of “piracy” tens of thousands of years ...

Why physicists are air-dropping buoys into the paths of...

A sprawling research program aims to improve hurricane forecasts by collecting d...

El Niño pattern can bring wet weather to UK one year later

El Niño and La Niña cycles driven by ocean temperatures in the Pacific can influ...

Some wildfires are growing twice as fast as they did tw...

In the western US, the average maximum growth rate of fires has more than double...

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