14 April 2021
Fugitive Telemetry, the latest instalment of the Murderbot series, shows readers still can't get enough of the killing-machine that prefers boxsets to interacting with humans. What's its secret, asks Sally Adee
14 April 2021
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
14 April 2021
A decade ago, the Suffrage Science awards were set up to champion women in science. Now there is a podcast telling the stories of the many fascinating winners
14 April 2021
A bold new book by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein combines her love of physics with a strong analysis of the inequalities rife in science
14 April 2021
Paid-for newsletters on Substack were a great innovation, but the way it has changed means I will no longer be writing for it, writes Annalee Newitz
14 April 2021
A continent's worth of land inhabited by ancient people has been submerged by rising seas over the past 20,000 years. Now we're discovering its secrets
10 April 2021
A pioneering trial is giving mothers in poverty either a large or small cash gift each month for several years to find out whether a basic income changes a baby's brain and development
8 April 2021
People expect dark and milk chocolate to be taste more bitter if it is in black packaging, while yellow and pink packaging is associated with sweeter-tasting chocolate
7 April 2021
We tend to default to solving problems by adding features rather than removing them, potentially failing to recognise efficient solutions that involve simplification
