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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice math...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the...
Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministr...
In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discove...
'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a...
The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley on how she made time travel work in her bestselling nove...
First evidence of ancient birds nesting above the ...
Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million ...
Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arriva...
The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals...
Will SpaceX’s Starship rocket ever work - and what...
The failure of SpaceX’s ninth Starship launch has raised fresh concerns about the future of the rock...
Amazing images reveal new details in the sun's atm...
City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images...
Qubit breakthrough could make it easier to build q...
Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Sta...
Dark chocolate is rich in flavanols. Does that mak...
Antioxidants like cocoa flavanols may benefit heart health, brain ageing and the microbiome. Columni...
Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shal...
A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years...
We’re about to unlock the secrets of ancient human...
For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains...
Massive glacier collapse triggers landslide that b...
Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a near...
How your whole imagination is conjured up from thr...
Understanding the neurological systems that produce the world inside your head can help you to harne...
Can imagining a better future really make it come ...
Manifestation is easy to dismiss as unscientific nonsense. Certain techniques used in the practice, ...
Do we have free will? Quantum experiments may soon...
Whether or not we have partial free will could soon be resolved by experiments in quantum physics, w...
How visualisation sets you up for success by chang...
The vividness of your mind’s eye isn't fixed - and training it up is the secret tool of top athletes...
Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during las...
Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evol...
You can make fair dice from any shape you like
Want to roll an armadillo when you play Dungeons & Dragons, instead of standard dice? Now you ca...
