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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

31 January 2018

We thought that our ancestors were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a fossil from an Israeli cave reveals an earlier exodus over 170,000 years ago

Secret US military bases revealed by joggers using fitness app

31 January 2018

Runners sharing activities logged by the fitness app Strava have unwittingly traced the outline of military facilities around the world

We shouldn't hide the gory details of how meat reaches our plate

31 January 2018

Eating animals is a choice we are all entitled to make but we should at least do so with consideration of their lives and deaths

We must stand up to bad politics, not hide in an ivory tower

31 January 2018

Science journalism is about more than pure science. When powerful people of any political leaning go against the evidence, New Scientist cannot turn a blind eye

Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age

31 January 2018

The discovery that chimps and some monkeys have a long history of making tools is forcing us to rethink our own cultural evolution

A brain scan can reveal which people you're friends with

30 January 2018

Friends have more similar brain activity than people who don't know each other, particularly in regions involved in attention, emotion and language

Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

25 January 2018

Despite treating 86 people since 2015, China's approach to CRISPR genome-editing in humans is basic and risky

These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

25 January 2018

Producing ready-made sandwiches can generate twice as much carbon dioxide as simply making them at home, and one particular filling is egregiously bad

We've stopped trusting social media – and that's a good thing

23 January 2018

I'm one of the growing number of users cynical about social networks such as Facebook. But there are upsides to all this digital doubt, says Lara Williams

Only great work can really justify sci-art collaborations

31 December 2017

The art produced by collaborations between scientists and artists is largely overlooked or slated. The only answer is to make work that’s too good to ignore