Universe news, articles and features | Page 3 | New Scientist

Skip to content

Pondering the big question of consciousness is a welcome distraction

Physics

Pondering the big question of consciousness is a welcome distraction

Our best mathematical theory of consciousness is sparking a rethink of one of science’s hardest problems – how simple matter gives rise to a complex mind

Leader

Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths

Space

Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths

Features

We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

Space

We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

Features

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Physics

Even a computer the size of the universe can’t predict everything

News

Cycling

Last Word

This week’s new questions

Regulars

deck of cards artwork

Physics

Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can't explain

Features

A man gazes at the Milky Way

Space

Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery

Comment

Mathematical universe

Physics

Trippy maths program could help figure out the shape of the universe

News

Geraint Lewis at New Scientist Live 2019

Video

The search for aliens: Is anybody out there?

Video

Second law of thermodynamics

Definition

Second law of thermodynamics

Question

Are there multiple universes?

Space

Ancient black holes ruled out as source of all dark matter

News

Space

Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

News