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From drowned worlds to virtual utopias via deep space, wild ideas abound in Emily H. Wilson's picks for her favourite sci-fi ...

New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and cure once-fatal ...

Planetary scientist and academic leader Meenakshi Wadhwa brings a bold vision and broad scientific perspective as the new ...

New Orleans bluesman Guitar Lightnin' Lee has died; he fronted a band that included punk musicians decades younger than him ...

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The New Scientist Book Club stepped away from science fiction for our October read, turning to the winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize instead, serendipitously announced just in ...

Every Friday by midnight, Christina Hara sends The New Yorker’s latest issue to the printer with words in place, layouts locked and pages perfected. Just four years after graduating from the ...

There was a jam-packed programme of talks and exhibits on offer at this year’s New Scientist Live at Excel London, which took place from 18 to 20 October and attracted thousands of visitor of all ages ...

Humanity will attempt large-scale efforts to block radiation from the sun before the end of the century, according to leading climate scientists surveyed by New Scientist, in a last-ditch bid to ...

Imagine spinning a top and then letting it come to rest. Is there a way for you to spin the top again so it ends up in the exact position it started, as if you had never spun it at all? Surprisingly, ...