14 September 2021
SpaceX’s Inspiration4 launch, planned for 15 September, will mark the first time a flight into orbit has been crewed exclusively by people who are not professional astronauts
9 September 2021
Challenge your brain by solving New Scientist's weekly crosswords on your mobile, tablet or desktop
8 September 2021
Billionaires clash over their rockets, the amount of time food adds to or takes off your lifespan and horsing around with drugs all feature in Feedback’s weekly weird round-up
8 September 2021
Any efforts to vaccinate 12 to 15 year olds may be too late to prevent a wave of infection in England
8 September 2021
Our brains are wired to choose instant pleasures over long-term health, so even imperfect recommendations of how many steps we should take or hours of sleep we need are better than none
8 September 2021
Will composers run out of combinations of notes for original melodies? And do rooks normally bury their food?
8 September 2021
Researchers and readers write in to explain why snails sometimes leave dotted trails. The researchers have taken it seriously and the readers have mostly made jokes
8 September 2021
Seeing seven colours in a rainbow is down to what we expect to see, not reality. In fact, there are many more colours in a rainbow, as our readers explain
8 September 2021
Can you solve this week’s fiendish puzzle Arithmagic? Plus the answer to puzzle #129
8 September 2021
From novices to hard-core allotmenteers, all gardeners could benefit from the “no dig” method. New research suggests it may improve the soil, increase yields and reduce carbon emissions too.
