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How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution

6 February 2019

The most detailed ever look at Earth's prehistoric climate suggests many habitats changed in the past 800,000 years – and this may be why we evolved big brains

How New Scientist readers predicted the Oscar winners

5 March 2018

We ran a simple experiment to test if the wisdom of the crowd could predict the future. It looks to have been a success

Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

22 February 2018

Intelligence agencies have found that crowds of everyday people can forecast events with surprising accuracy. Now we’re running our own experiment

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

21 February 2018

Want to know if a dictator will be deposed? Or shares will crash? Intelligence agencies and firms are realising groups of everyday people can foresee what will happen

Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands

15 November 2017

In our desire to make ethical artificial intelligence, we better be ready for machines that can choose to say no, says Jamais Cascio

Facebook allowed adverts to be targeted at 'Jew haters'

15 September 2017

Facebook's ad-placing software allowed an investigative news site to target advertising at users who declared an interest in anti-Semitic topics

Ingredient-swapping web browser is a recipe for disaster

23 August 2017

Not a lover of lobster? Scared of scampi? The internet is still your oyster with this recipe helper, but be prepared for a side dish of surprising swaps