Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response
9 June 2022
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
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Kurzgesagt CEO Philipp Dettmer: 'Everything can be made into a story'
5 November 2021
The human immune system is one of the most complex biological systems we know of, and yet most of us never learn how it works or what it is, says Philipp Dettmer, founder of YouTube channel Kurzgesagt. In his new book, Immune, he hopes to change all...
Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech
25 July 2019
In his first speech as prime minister, Boris Johnson said Britain is "leading the world" in science and technology. Is that true?
Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest
19 July 2019
New Scientist was opposed to the Apollo missions from the start, and complained for decades that the money to send people into space was being wasted. Why were we so grumpy and pessimistic about putting a man on the moon?
James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life
11 July 2019
New Scientist interviewed James Lovelock to discuss Gaia’s Novacene and our new AI overlords, microwaving hamsters for science and why Elon Musk’s Mars mission is ‘crazy’
Anyone can now play with sophisticated AIs thanks to a desktop app
7 June 2019
AI lets programmers control Barack Obama’s face and replicate the styles of painting greats. Now a desktop app called Runway lets you do the same
Science could learn a lot from Mona Chalabi’s mischievous chart art
4 June 2019
Mona Chalabi's work is a compelling mix of illustration with a journalistic work ethic and a rigorous approach to statistics. The science and art worlds could do with more of this "TMI Queen"
Revealed: First image of huge meteor explosion over Earth last year
18 March 2019
The huge meteor explosion which hit Earth in December was caught on camera by the Japanese Himawari-8 weather satellite
