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

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

According to a mathematical model of how people weigh up different outcomes, the optimal strategy is to be ambitious, but not overly so ...

Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the New Scientist Book Club’s read for June to mark 50 years since the popular science classic was first published ...

Even if you’ve never bought any cryptocurrency, like columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, your money may be affected by ...

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

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

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

If you’ve ever wondered whether the cold‑water swimming craze is a genuine brain booster or just a very chilly fad, this episode is for you. New Scientist journalists Cat de Lange and Helen Thomson ...

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 ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...