Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Most of our members enjoyed it, ...

Sandra Knapp, chair of the judging panel for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, explains why neurologist ...

In this passage from Our Brains, Our Selves, winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, neuroscientist Masud ...

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might ...

We thought happiness peaked at the beginning and end of life, but a study from Germany suggests a more pessimistic outlook ...

A free-floating planet has been seen devouring astonishing amounts of matter, hinting that stars and planets are more alike ...

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it ...

Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but she leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural ...

Fermented foods make up a third of what we eat and were mostly discovered by accident centuries ago. Now a fermentation ...

AI tools are being used to design proteins and even viruses, leading to fears these could eventually be used to evade ...