Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Most of our members enjoyed it, ...

In this passage from Our Brains, Our Selves, winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, neuroscientist Masud ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely ...

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might ...

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it ...

A free-floating planet has been seen devouring astonishing amounts of matter, hinting that stars and planets are more alike ...

We thought happiness peaked at the beginning and end of life, but a study from Germany suggests a more pessimistic outlook ...

Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but she leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural ...

AI tools are being used to design proteins and even viruses, leading to fears these could eventually be used to evade ...

A clinical trial has found that VER-01, a drug derived from cannabis, eases chronic lower back pain without serious side ...

Science fiction legend Ursula K. Le Guin is honoured with a new collection out this month, and sci-fi fans can also look ...