New Scientist's posts

Within weeks, Peter Madsen and Kristian von Bengtson will launch the first standing-room-only spacecraft. Their…

Miniature robotic aircraft could soon have insect-like eyes to go with their insect-like wings. Neurobiologists…

With Earth's orbit cluttered with dead satellites, discarded rocket boosters and other space junk, ways to prevent…

Some lizards escape predators by "dropping" their tail, but the experience appears to leave its mark. After losing…

The human family tree may be in for a dramatic rewrite. DNA collected from a fossilised finger bone from Siberia…

Does Schrödinger's cat really exist? You bet. The first ever quantum superposition in an object visible to the…