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 ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ...