Asking the biggest questions is the very essence of science
30 January 2019
New Scientist is kicking off a new series of articles entitled The Biq Question to attempt to answer the unanswerable and crack open life's greatest puzzles
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Monarch butterflies' beautiful wing scales enable their epic migration
30 January 2019
This extreme close-up of a butterfly wing, made by stitching together 2100 exposures, shows the tiny scales that allow monarchs to fly thousands of kilometres
Chasing the Sun review: Light's power over life charted
30 January 2019
A new book cuts a welcome path through the complexities of how light from our star has influenced biology and culture on Earth
Don't miss: Space thrills, wooden guts and the rise of esports
30 January 2019
Enjoy space thrills and spills from your armchair, visit some wooden human innards – and discover the surprise spectator sport that's second only to football
Life’s secret ingredient: A radical theory of what makes things alive
30 January 2019
How does inanimate matter come to breathe, thrive and reproduce? Explaining this magic means overhauling nature’s laws, says physicist Paul Davies
