Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment ...

The New Scientist Book Club continued to think about the inner workings of the mind with our November read, moving from ...

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Dementia is the deterioration of brain functioning beyond that of normal ageing. There are multiple types, the most common being Alzheimer’s disease. Factors such as smoking, being overweight, heavy ...

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

Criminal psychologist Julia Shaw applies the same profiling techniques used in criminal cases to explore the psychological motivations behind those committing environmental crimes, such as some of ...

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