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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the ...

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 ...