Every time a new technology hits the internet, there is a battle between the rights of users and major companies. To see how this will play out with AI, columnist Jacob Aron looks to examples from the ...
The glymphatic system flushes toxins out of the brain, but this seems to be disrupted in Alzheimer's disease, and cholesterol ...
It's now possible to convert a handful of smells into electronic signals that can be sent through the internet ...
Terence Tao, one of the world's great mathematicians, urges us to find empowerment in numbers in his new book Six Maths ...
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our readers had to say ...
With the world looking likely to exceed 1.5°C of warming, the plan is now to reduce our carbon emissions after overshooting the target. What lasting damage will this have?
As sea levels rise in the eastern Pacific, they are falling around Australia and the Coral Triangle, leaving some mangroves ...
A time traveller must fight for love in Claire North’s As We Fall Through Time, while a single-celled alien is perplexed by Earth’s biology in Annalee Newitz’s A Wall Is Also a Road. Sci-fi columnist ...
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our readers had to say ...
Locals on Corvo in the Azores are protecting Cory's shearwaters from disorientating light pollution. Photographer Andrea Zanenga learned how the remote community rescues and releases young birds ...
Life Out of Order is the long-awaited sequel to Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling science-fiction novel The Time Traveler's ...
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon ...
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