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Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks ...
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Pl...
The challenges of writing from the perspective of ...
The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scient...
Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New...
Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA d...
A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of ...
Rare Saturn-sized rogue planet is first to have it...
Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of groun...
Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces...
Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so c...
The 3 things you should do this New Year to foster...
Olivia Remes, a mental health researcher at the University of Cambridge, says these are the three th...
Could 2026 be the year we start using quantum comp...
Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum...
Three supermassive black holes have been spotted m...
Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear...
The duo kite-skiing 4000 kilometres across Antarct...
An explorer and a glaciologist are kite-skiing across Antarctica with a ground-penetrating radar to ...
Star that seemed to vanish more than 130 years ago...
In 1892, astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard thought he saw a bright star near Venus, but then it vani...
Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific ...
Cacio e pepe pasta and boiled eggs were the subjects of meticulous studies aiming to help cooks achi...
The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite t...
A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed a...
The cassette tape made a comeback in 2025 thanks t...
With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorde...
A controversial experiment threatened to kill the ...
A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experim...
Benefits of mRNA cancer vaccines could exceed $75 ...
An analysis of ongoing trials suggests that mRNA cancer vaccines have the potential to deliver healt...
Mathematicians unified key laws of physics in 2025...
It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling p...
Low on energy? A new understanding of rest could h...
There is a state of relaxation that few of us spend much time in, but which comes with profound well...
