April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch ...

A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...

A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn't produce perfect copies – with big implications ...

Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are ...

An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first ...

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows ...

AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, ...

For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodford’s experience raising worms – both the small ...

A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expanse author James S. A.