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New Scientist

There are five types of sleep – here's what that means for your health

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Is the universe really one big black hole?

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One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it?

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Biodegradable plastic made from bamboo is strong and easy to recycle

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Nobel prize for physics goes to trio behind quantum computing chips

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Galaxies fling out matter much more violently than we thought

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General relativity might save some planets from death

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What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?

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Shackleton knew his doomed ship wasn’t the strongest before sailing

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Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance

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Would a ban on genetic engineering of wildlife hamper conservation?

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Your happiness in life may not be U-shaped - here's how it could vary

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There is an odd streak in the universe – and we still don’t know why

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Exceptional star is the most pristine object known in the universe

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20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

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Kids as young as 4 innately use sorting algorithms to solve problems

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Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society science book prize

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Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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Should we worry AI will create deadly bioweapons? Not yet, but one day

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Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

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Rogue planet gains 6 billion tonnes per second in record growth spurt

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How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals – and the world

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How playing a musical instrument helps children learn to read

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Jane Goodall, dogged advocate for the natural world, has died aged 91

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Evolution may explain why women live longer than men

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Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science

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Why 'beauty factories' could solve two massive cosmological mysteries

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What might the humble house mouse be trying to tell us?

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Prepare to enjoy four spectacular supermoons in a row

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New Scientist recommends Chris Hadfield's Final Orbit

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Exploring PMS is a great idea, but The Period Brain can be simplistic

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Endearing photos of bats show clever adaptations like long tongues

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Disturbing Netflix mystery explores a world out to 'solve' adolescence

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Autism may have subtypes that are genetically distinct from each other

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The mystery of highly reactive oxygen has finally been solved

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'We're precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event'

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NASA's asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome

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How brain organoids are revealing what truly makes humans unique

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie'

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Egg cells made with DNA from human skin fertilised in the lab

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'Funny' videos of stressed and frightened pets are no laughing matter

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Ancient artists created giant camel engravings in the Arabian desert

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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

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Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet

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We may finally know what causes will-o’-the-wisps

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Our brain 'swivels' to focus on sounds from different directions

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Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?

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Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain

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