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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.

Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...

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