August is traditionally a quiet month in publishing, and this one is no different. But there are still science-fiction gems ...

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The total solar eclipse on 12 August will only be visible to a lucky few, but eclipses happen all over the world – here are ...

In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot Hig, ...

Set in an empty world after a superflu pandemic wipes out most of humanity, Peter Heller's The Dog Stars - the August read ...

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Surgery that aims to enhance the clearance of Alzheimer's-associated proteins from the brain has been banned in China, but ...

Global warming may make it too hot for malaria-carrying mosquitoes to survive in parts of Africa, but could also shift the ...

A treatment that turns off the bit of the immune system that goes haywire in Guillain-Barré syndrome may be the first ...

The mummies of two people who lived in Chile more than 400 years ago carry DNA from smallpox, providing the first molecular ...

Three problems that are out of reach for conventional computers have been cracked by quantum computers and show how important ...