
Apollo 10½: A smart animation about growing up during the space age
13 April 2022
Richard Linklater's latest film follows a young boy's fantasies about travelling to space, using beautiful rotoscoped animation to tell his story, says Simon Ings

13 April 2022
Richard Linklater's latest film follows a young boy's fantasies about travelling to space, using beautiful rotoscoped animation to tell his story, says Simon Ings

6 April 2022
A new micro-genre of science fiction explores how mind control is at the very heart of our networked existence

24 March 2022
Extreme weather events have been recorded at both of Earth’s polar regions, as the Arctic and Antarctic are hit by major heat waves. To put this into context, Rowan speaks with climate scientist and Hot Air author Peter Stott.How did octopuses get to...

9 March 2022
No energy needed to be created when the universe came into existence for some very counter-intuitive reasons, say our readers

9 March 2022
In The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd’s latest work of magical realist speculative fiction, the characters have a habit of asking “what makes a map?”. The answer, it becomes clear, is its purpose, finds Sally Adee

2 March 2022
There's plenty of excitement about a new, decentralised version of the internet. It is largely still a fantasy, but scammers are using it to lure in unsuspecting victims, writes Annalee Newitz

2 March 2022
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

2 March 2022
The new slapstick sci-fi offering by French directorial royalty Jean-Pierre Jeunet is plagued by predictable innuendo

23 February 2022
Switching your brain off work mode at 5pm might sound appealing, but as this thriller on Apple TV+ demonstrates, it could be a very bad idea

16 February 2022
Kirill Serebrennikov’s mischievous film about a fever-stricken comic book artist is an ode to Russian sci-fi and absurdist literature, finds Simon Ings