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NASA's X-59 plane will try to quietly break the speed of sound in 2023

3 January 2023

NASA and Lockheed Martin’s strange-looking X-59 plane is set to fly early in 2023, and it is designed to break the sound barrier quietly rather than creating a huge sonic boom


Margrethe Vestager

EU's Artificial Intelligence Act will lead the world on regulating AI

28 December 2022

The European Union is set to create the world's first broad standards for regulating or banning certain uses of artificial intelligence in 2023


Don't Miss: Sonic Ray lights up London’s only lighthouse

Don't Miss: Sonic Ray lights up London’s only lighthouse

13 October 2021

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


2021 preview: Three missions will make February 2021 the month of Mars

2021 preview: Three missions will make February 2021 the month of Mars

30 December 2020

February 2021 will see three missions arriving at Mars: the Hope orbiter from the United Arab Emirates, the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission and NASA's Perseverance rover


What to expect from the cutting edge of science and tech in 2020

What to expect from the cutting edge of science and tech in 2020

18 December 2019

From anti-ageing drugs to self-driving cars and long-lost human ancestors, New Scientist experts reveal what the biggest science stories will be in 2020


Don't miss: Rights for the planet, art for tomorrow and oceanic beauty

Don't miss: Rights for the planet, art for tomorrow and oceanic beauty

4 December 2019

This week, learn how rights can save the planet, explore a world at every scale with Korea's artist of the year, and take a deep dive through a hit documentary


Don't miss: knotty sculptures, deadly diseases and molecular machines

Don't miss: knotty sculptures, deadly diseases and molecular machines

27 November 2019

This week, catch Anthony Gormley's big show, learn to spot the planet's biggest diseases and discover the tiny technologies set to transform our world


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Don't miss: Celebrity prisons, virtual thrills and a dive under Paris

12 June 2019

Watch surveillance run amok at the cinema, fly through the air like a virtual bird, and spot the joins between science and fantasy in Anaïs Tondeur's latest art show


Don't miss: X-Men antics, hunting dark matter and taking on Glorkon

Don't miss: X-Men antics, hunting dark matter and taking on Glorkon

29 May 2019

Watch as X-Men's Jean Grey turns supermutant, visit a dark matter show that wrestles with reality and play a comedy-action game against dog-destroyer Glorkon


Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

23 May 2019

Carl Guyenette has turned musician Jeff Wayne's 70’s concept album into two hours of immersive terror – by putting all the tech at the service of the story


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