23 March 2022
A scintillating piece of research into the traits we associate with boring people, plus Feedback’s take on whether there are more doors or wheels in the world, and an asteroid half the size of a giraffe
23 March 2022
Physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili discusses the power of wonder, the importance of overcoming our biases and the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics
23 March 2022
A new documentary reveals the lives of Katia and Maurice Krafft, trail-blazing volcanologists who paid the ultimate price
23 March 2022
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
23 March 2022
A mind-bending light and sound extravaganza is coming to a town near you, and it could help unravel the mysteries of the brain
23 March 2022
A true-crime series on IMDb TV takes a slightly too po-faced look into a theft from an invertebrate zoo where things weren't quite as they seemed
23 March 2022
Our mastery of language presents many mysteries, not least where grammar comes from and how children learn to speak so effortlessly. Now researchers argue that it all makes sense if you think of language as a game of charades
16 March 2022
The current reference human genome is based on a handful of people but the new Pangenome project will incorporate DNA from hundreds of people all around the world
16 March 2022
A psychological study shows that people can be overconfident in their ability to perform tasks for which they have no formal training
