In the opening to Emily St. John Mandel's new novel Exit Party, the October read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are ...

Kratos is the call sign of one of the leading drone pilots in Ukraine. As part of the Aquila regiment, 3rd Army Corps, he has taken down almost 1000 enemy drones ...

To succeed at scale, quantum computing must differentiate itself from AI, says columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan. But the ...

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times ...

Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A ...

Dried amniotic membranes from donated placentas can be wrapped around delicate nerves during prostate cancer surgery to ...

SpaceX’s changing priorities, the war in Ukraine and a lack of competitors are all causing a launch crisis that might last ...

A phenomenon known as true polar wander, different to the movement of the magnetic poles, may be more common and more dramatic than previously known ...

At long last, we have pinned down the size of a proton. More than 15 years after an experiment unexpectedly shook the world of particle physics, researchers are regaining their grip on one of this ...

Computers that use light rather than electricity to represent and manipulate data could slash the power demands of data centres and simultaneously speed up calculations. Two studies published today ...

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat ...