April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

Fears that artificial intelligence could rise up to wipe out humanity are understandable given our steady diet of sci-fi ...

For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodford’s experience raising worms – both the small ...

A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...

An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first ...

AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn't produce perfect copies – with big implications ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows ...

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

SARS-CoV-2 virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The ensuing pandemic has killed millions worldwide. Vaccines have made the condition much less fatal for those who have been vaccinated, ...