From China Miéville to Brandon Sanderson via a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, there are some really huge names with new sci-fi ...

Mountainous regions across the planet are warming especially fast, melting the ice that glues rocky slopes and glaciers ...

Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, does the maths on whether anything is actually real ...

Injuries from the war in Ukraine have forced the country to develop highly advanced prostheses and fit them in record numbers. What can the rest of the world learn from its efforts?

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it – that may have just changed ...

No matter where you’re from, there are things you can do to cope better with extreme temperatures. But it takes work to stop ...

Animal studies have shown that lithium orotate could help stave off dementia, and a human trial is about to start to see if ...

Catherine Heymans is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Observational Cosmology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the GCCL Institute at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She ...

Callaghan takes on this mind-bending question by exploring the proof we have that time dilation is both a physical phenomenon ...

The cooling of the North Atlantic is creating waviness in the jet stream and high-pressure ridging over Europe, a study finds ...

The opening chapter to the New Scientist Book Club's read for September sees Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explore what we gain ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launches on 30 August, will observe space with the same detail as the Hubble ...