Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our ...

Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and each of us may have a ...

We pick the sci-fi novels we’re most looking forward to reading this month, from a new Brandon Sanderson to  the latest from ...

Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutations and variants that is ...

In this extract from the February read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet the protagonist of Tim Winton’s Juice, ...

Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and we're starting to ...

Reports suggest that Elon Musk is eyeing up a merger involving SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, but what does he hope to achieve by ...

Interval cancers are aggressive tumours that grow during the interval after someone has been screened for cancer and before they are screened again, and AI seems to be able to identify them at an earl ...

The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis and lupus. But why do ...

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...