In the opening to Emily St. John Mandel's new novel Exit Party, the October read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are ...

Kratos is the call sign of one of the leading drone pilots in Ukraine. As part of the Aquila regiment, 3rd Army Corps, he has taken down almost 1000 enemy drones ...

To succeed at scale, quantum computing must differentiate itself from AI, says columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan. But the ...

Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A ...

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times ...

Dried amniotic membranes from donated placentas can be wrapped around delicate nerves during prostate cancer surgery to ...

SpaceX’s changing priorities, the war in Ukraine and a lack of competitors are all causing a launch crisis that might last ...

Australia’s national health website has been hacked by an OpenAI agent. It was able to access non-public files and is the first publicly revealed case of an AI agent breaching the defences of a ...

The first complete design for a quantum grandfather clock uses a single atom, tiny mirrors and light. Building it could help our understanding of what makes any clock accurate in the quantum realm and ...

Does astrology work? No, according to a detailed assessment of 152 astrologers that found their predictions were not only no better than random guessing, but also rarely agreed with each other. There ...

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat ...