Best science books and science fiction stories for kids
21 June 2023
From brightly coloured baby books about frogs to early ecology for 10-year-olds and dark teen sci-fi set on the ocean floor, here are the best books for young minds
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The best new sci-fi books to escape into on your next holiday
21 June 2023
Christopher Paolini's Fractal Noise and Temi Oh's More Perfect are among our top sci-fi novels to read while you're away
Best science books and must-reads for your next break
21 June 2023
Travelling is a great time for a rethink, whether it's about the human mind or the evolution of cats – or even the importance of red algae for Earth. Our selection of great books has it covered
Titanium Noir review: Gripping, philosophical science fiction
24 May 2023
Suppose the megarich can rejuvenate – but it makes them grow to titanic proportions? Nick Harkaway's novel draws on Greek myth and noir in a fabulous thought experiment that reflects our own fixation with "making it big", says Sally Adee
New Scientist recommends: Martin MacInnes's transcendent In Ascension
24 May 2023
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Don't Miss: Life deep underground in Apple TV+'s mysterious Silo
26 April 2023
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
LOLA review: Great sci-fi film is rich in ideas, but poor in budget
12 April 2023
In this counterfactual history, war is looming in 1930s England and two orphan sisters invent a machine that intercepts broadcasts from the future. What could go wrong when they lend it to intelligence services?
Atomic Light review: Solar astronomers rescue an uneven installation
22 March 2023
Four films make up Atomic Light by video and installation artist David Blandy, a work marred by overstatement, but saved by the story of two solar astronomers who drew the sun on the day of the Hiroshima blast
Don't Miss: 65, a sci-fi dinosaur thriller by writers of A Quiet Place
8 March 2023
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
Collision review: How CERN's stellar secrets became sci-fi gold
25 January 2023
Margaret Drabble, Luan Goldie, Steven Moffat and Stephen Baxter are among the top writers in Collision, an anthology that transmutes CERN's elusive research into science fiction
