The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Iain M. Banks's classic sci-fi novel The Player of Games. In this extract, ...

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science ...

Iain M Banks published his debut novel The Wasp Factory in 1984. He went on to write 28 more novels, with his literary ...

Bethany Jacobs' debut science fiction novel, These Burning Stars, won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her books also include On ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...

Chytrid fungus is a scourge to global amphibian populations, but before it kills some frogs, it can produce symptoms that may ...

Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today ...

Mapping of the main quarry on Easter Island where giant statues were carved has uncovered evidence that the monuments may not ...

New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and cure once-fatal ...