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

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 ...

An AI scientist can work independently for hours while doing research that would take humans months to complete, and has made several “novel contributions” to science, its creators claim – but others ...

Quantum Backrooms is a horror game in which the player explores eerie rooms. The twist is that the rooms have been generated ...

We're increasingly prioritising our own needs over those of the wider community, which may be causing us to love our partners ...

According to a mathematical model of how people weigh up different outcomes, the optimal strategy is to be ambitious, but not ...

Bacteria created using mirror images of natural biomolecules would pose a grave threat to life on Earth, some researchers ...

The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world.

Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...