The New Scientist Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract from its second chapter, ...

Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might ...

Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, author of young adult novels. As Claire North, they have published works ...

The world of quantum video games is vast – there are hundreds that are either inspired by quantum mechanics or use quantum ...

The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, and unprecedented ...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little ...

Large fruits and seeds buried under volcanic ash nearly 75 million years ago upend the idea that flowering plants only came ...

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have ...

Growing numbers of homeowners are installing batteries that store electricity when it is cheap, which helps balance the grid ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

IBM's latest chip packs in twice as many transistors as the current state-of-the-art chip by adding a second layer of silicon ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...