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The best new science fiction books of July 2025
From Austin Taylor to Nadia Afifi, there is lots to look forward to in the sci-fi out this month - i...
Polycystic ovary syndrome may be passed on via che...
Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epige...
Typos and slang spur AI to discourage seeking medi...
AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful...
What does it mean when an orca wants to share its ...
Researchers have documented orcas seemingly gifting rays, seals and fish to scientists and divers, w...
Single antiviral shot could offer better protectio...
A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu i...
The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t co...
Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for thei...
Altered gut microbiome linked to fertility issues ...
People with PCOS who struggle to conceive tend to have lower levels of a gut microbe that has been l...
X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less p...
A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make takin...
Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always la...
With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests ...
The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with g...
Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Over...
Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bra...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-...
Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set...
In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Boo...
Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia,...
The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world ...
Mystery fireball spotted plummeting to Earth over ...
There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US –...
Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ...
DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistanc...
Deep sleep seems to lead to more eureka moments
After a nap, people who entered the second stage of sleep were more likely to spot a solution to a p...
These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth...
Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks –...
Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for clima...
With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape ro...
