While many rocks don’t burn, some of them do. It depends on what the rocks are made of – and that’s related to how they were formed. Rocks that burn when they get heated up are combusting. This means ...

A surprising discovery on the Cumbrian coast of England has uncovered a new type of rock, formed from industrial waste, that challenges our understanding of the Earth’s geological processes. As ...

Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist ran a feature called “Imagine Earth without people”, a thought experiment about what would happen to our planet over thousands of years if humanity suddenly ...