A surgeon has told New Scientist they have performed a transplant on someone with a complete spinal cord injury using a piece ...
Terence Tao, one of the world's great mathematicians, urges us to find empowerment in numbers in his new book Six Maths ...
Life Out of Order is the long-awaited sequel to Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling science-fiction novel The Time Traveler's ...
A time traveller must fight for love in Claire North’s As We Fall Through Time, while a single-celled alien is perplexed by Earth’s biology in Annalee Newitz’s A Wall Is Also a Road. Sci-fi columnist ...
The decision to proceed with the Jackdaw gas field will make the UK complicit in pushing up greenhouse gas emissions and give ...
Researchers have trapped a positron for the first time and plan to use it look for answers to one of particle physics’ ...
Depression has long been linked to chemical imbalances, but many cases may actually be related to disrupted body clocks that ...
It's now possible to convert a handful of smells into electronic signals that can be sent through the internet ...
Every time a new technology hits the internet, there is a battle between the rights of users and major companies. To see how this will play out with AI, columnist Jacob Aron looks to examples from the ...
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our readers had to say ...
With the world looking likely to exceed 1.5°C of warming, the plan is now to reduce our carbon emissions after overshooting the target. What lasting damage will this have?
As sea levels rise in the eastern Pacific, they are falling around Australia and the Coral Triangle, leaving some mangroves ...
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