Old Scientist: Just like the movies
3 January 2018
Who needs action films when New Scientist brings you disasters and drama with no romantic subplot? Find out more in our scan through the January archives
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Our pick of the best science shows to attend in 2018
3 January 2018
From the future of work to fashion's dependence on the natural world, moments of designed happiness to pina coladas, there is plenty to look forward to this year
Eye phone: The doctor using tech to restore the world’s sight
3 January 2018
A lack of eyecare blights millions of lives across the globe. Andrew Bastawrous was seriously visually impaired himself – and has a plan to let the blind see
Human or robot? Google's speech generator makes it hard to tell
28 December 2017
Instead of stitching together short human sound bites to create words and sentences, Google’s latest system generates vocals from the text alone
3D-printed implant mends broken legs by turning into real bone
20 December 2017
Metal plates and pins for broken bones could be a thing of the past, with porous 3D implants as strong as the real thing used instead
Fooling AI can now be done a thousand times faster
20 December 2017
By changing an image pixel by pixel, neural networks can be tricked into thinking a dog is two people skiing
Will supersonic air travel's return be another white elephant?
18 December 2017
Fifty years after the unveiling of Concorde – the flawed, first supersonic airliner – its successors are coming. Maybe they’ll be the real deal, says Paul Marks
