In this extract from the February read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet the protagonist of Tim Winton’s Juice, driving across a scorched landscape in a future version of Australia ...

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our read for February – and the needle swings wildly from positive to negative ...

The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia that is so hot it is almost unliveable. Here, the author lays out his reasons for writing it – and wh ...

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

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Adults with kidney cancer who received faecal microbiota transplants on top of their existing drugs did better than those who ...

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis and lupus. But why do ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are at the forefront of a health revolution. Originally used to treat diabetes, then obesity, these GLP-1 receptor agonists – drugs that mimic a hormone that reduces ...

Since the mid-2000s, electronic musician and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has transformed vast quantities of data into immersive installations that transport you inside invisible scientific realms.