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Gender pay gap widens for UK scientists and engineers

27 March 2019

On average, female scientists and engineers earn less than their male counterparts, and the difference is getting bigger, according to the 2019 New Scientist/SRG salary survey

The UK's plan to block online pornography could be a privacy disaster

27 March 2019

A scheme designed to limit children's access to adult content could end up creating a massive database of people's pornography habits

The 5 biggest physics questions that LIGO's reboot could soon answer

27 March 2019

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory is about to switch on after a big upgrade and it should tell us all about black holes and much more

Spacecraft reveal the mysteries of the solar system's space rocks

27 March 2019

Three spacecraft have been gathering a treasure trove of information about the solar system's space rocks, helping us understand how Earth and the other planets formed

A man on the remains of a bridge in Zimbabwe

Images show the devastation of Cyclone Idai

27 March 2019

Cyclone Idai has devastated parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi with winds reaching 170 kilometres per hour

Feeling Fly

27 March 2019

Do insects have emotions in the same way humans and mammals do? For example, would a fly feel sad if it saw its brother die?

Arachnid appetite

27 March 2019

I was impressed by the size of the prey captured by this crab spider (see photo), seeing as they don't use webs to catch food. How much of it would the spider eat and is there a "best before" date?

Many ridges to cross

27 March 2019

Back roads in Australia often have hundreds of metres of gravel corrugations, or ridges. They are always a few centimetres high, spaced about 30 centimetres apart... and annoying for vehicle occupants. What causes them?