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Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-old problem
After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the same technique to solve another …
Start-ups are racing to revolutionise mathematics with AI
AI start-ups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding are hiring mathematicians and building AI systems that they hope will not only solve mathematics, …
3D-printed lymph nodes could widen access to CAR T-cell therapy
The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world. But a new way …
'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our …
Helen Phillips, winner of the Climate Fiction prize for her novel Hum, on if stories can make a difference, her anxieties and writing about the …
Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes
Massive amounts of dust swirl around active nuclei at the centres of galaxies, and these discs could give rise to vast numbers of rocky planets, …
Earth from Above author returns with astonishing freshwater images
From Kenya's Tree of Life to a Svalbard glacier, these stunning photos are taken from a new book by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, whose The Earth From …
Our verdict on Luminous by Silvia Park: a fascinating take on robots
The New Scientist Book Club read Silvia Park's near-future sci-fi novel Luminous in May, and had lots of good things to say (along with a …
New Scientist recommends Turi King's expert book about DNA's secrets
From clearing people convicted of murder to identifying a monarch's remains, Michael Le Page is fascinated by The Secrets of Our DNA, an insider's must-read …
Is there a word for the Wiki page for the Ship of …
Feedback has been flooded with answers (both correct and inspired) after wondering if there is a word for something that is an exemplar of the …
Capitalism has warped our understanding of ecology and life’s origins
The ideas of survival of the fittest and winning at all costs are closely entwinned with Darwinism, but they shouldn’t be. A rethink from a …
The late Ian Watson's sci-fi The Embedding is intriguing – but dated
Watson's death last month prompted sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson to read his acclaimed 1973 debut and find out what she'd been missing. She found …
Unsettling dance piece explores how AI is warping human relationships
Inspired by Shannon Vallor's book The AI Mirror, this compelling piece looks at how we are being affected by our deepening interactions with tech
Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many pregnancies fail
Embryo organoids made from stem cells are enabling scientists to recreate early pregnancy in the lab, unlocking treatments for infertility, miscarriage and pre-eclampsia
Wealthy people with environmental ideals are the biggest emitters
Among people of high socioeconomic status, love for nature corresponds with a bigger environmental footprint – and there's an obvious reason why
NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of square kilometres
Three missions slated to launch this year will begin to search the lunar surface for a suitable base location
NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of square miles
Three missions slated to launch this year will begin to search the lunar surface for a suitable base location
First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from
Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm
We may finally know why gold stays so shiny
Gold is chemically inert and so doesn't tarnish, but exactly why had been a mystery
How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – …
We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of …
Space storms could switch train signals and cause serious accidents
Critical safety equipment in many train systems is vulnerable to disruption by space weather, which could lead to fatal accidents
Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb
Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant chemical, to alleviate pain during surgical …
Will lab-grown sperm let infertile men have children of their own?
Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow their sperm in …
Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as a volcano
Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian countries
Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything
A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of …
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