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

AI models are solving mathematics problems with increasing pace, and a technique called formalisation is key to demonstrating ...

A newly discovered part of the brain is essential for successful embryo implantation in mice. It may help to explain why some ...

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

The mainstream view is that there are no particularly crucial phases in the development of the immune system, but a study of hundreds of infants suggests otherwise ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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