In the opening to Emily St. John Mandel's new novel Exit Party, the October read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are ...

From Becky Chambers to Audrey Niffenegger, there are some heavy hitters with new sci-fi novels out this month – and a hefty ...

Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A ...

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times ...

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

Therapy and drugs are the go-to options for treating mental health. But psychologist Kimberley Wilson argues that what we eat ...

AI models are solving mathematics problems with increasing pace, and a technique called formalisation is key to demonstrating ...

Dried amniotic membranes from donated placentas can be wrapped around delicate nerves during prostate cancer surgery to ...

We’ve long expected animals to move to cooler habitats as climate change bites, but it now appears that many are actually ...

Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat ...

A small hoard of medieval English coins found near the Vatican in Rome suggests that early English residents held a ...

The mainstream view is that there are no particularly crucial phases in the development of the immune system, but a study of hundreds of infants suggests otherwise ...