29 December 2022
New fossil discoveries show predatory marine reptiles from 200 million years ago may have been bigger than today’s blue whales – and that they evolved astonishingly rapidly
29 December 2022
Challenge your brain by solving New Scientist's weekly crosswords on your mobile, tablet or desktop
28 December 2022
ULA's Vulcan Centaur and Blue Origin's New Glenn are big rockets, but they are dwarfed by SpaceX's Starship, the largest rocket the world has ever seen
28 December 2022
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
28 December 2022
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
28 December 2022
Tens of millions of poultry are being kept indoors or have been slaughtered because of avian influenza. Without widespread vaccination of birds, free-range chickens and eggs could be off the menu forever in some countries
28 December 2022
Solar Foods will grow bacteria using carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen produced by renewable energy, a process more efficient than growing plants
28 December 2022
In 1998, two researchers made a bet that by 2023, we would have found a sign of consciousness within the brain. As the wager comes due, how close are we to an answer?
28 December 2022
The Linac Coherent Light Source II X-ray laser will be so fast and bright that it will allow people to create movies of atoms moving inside molecules
28 December 2022
Any new covid-19 vaccine must be better than the ones we already have, setting a high bar for approval that is not expected to be met in 2023
