The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, while Alice Roberts takes ...

Computer simulations have uncovered a new manganese compound that could exist deep in Earth’s mantle and may be connected to ...

From dementia to heart attacks, hearing loss has been linked to a wide range of effects across the body, and the condition is ...

An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes ...

Turmeric is heralded for its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, but columnist Alice Klein finds that the evidence ...

There is plenty of intriguing sci-fi on offer this month, whether it’s solar-powered cities from Adrian Tchaikovsky or a ...

Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some questioning whether there ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the ...

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human? We have begun ...

A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in an initial safety trial, ...

Particles of light cannot be divided into smaller particles, but if you try to snip off the end of one, instead of shortening ...

Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the New Scientist Book Club’s read for June to ...