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Scans of Girl with a Pearl Earring reveal painting's hidden secrets

16 June 2023

Using the latest imaging technology, conservators have turned back time on Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, revealing the masterpiece's hidden secrets

We test real-world robot avatars used in security and nuclear repair

8 June 2023

Rise of the robotic avatar: Meet the chess-playing robot, security androids and fusion reactor robotics at the cutting edge of avatar technology

Alex Wilkins tests out EVE, a humanoid robot at ICRA

My out-of-body experience controlling a robotic avatar

6 June 2023

New Scientist's Alex Wilkins finds out what it's like to become a robotic security guard. Could human android operators become standard in the near future?

Welcome to Your AI Future! Watch the AI film made using Midjourney

21 April 2023

This dystopian film uses AI image-generation program Midjourney and AI speech to tell the story of a well-meaning artificial intelligence trying to help the last surviving human

Inside Falkor (too), the ship searching for life at hydrothermal vents

1 March 2023

Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor (too) sets sail to uncover unknown vents and lifeforms along the mid-Atlantic ridge

Unseen Titanic footage released 38 years after wreckage was first discovered

Unseen Titanic footage released 38 years after wreckage was discovered

16 February 2023

New Titanic footage has emerged, taken from the first submersible dives to the wreckage in July 1986

Gough Map at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Gough Map: New technology uncovers secrets of rare Bodleian artefact

14 February 2023

The Gough Map, thought to be Britain's oldest, has been revealed in unprecedented detail thanks to cutting-edge 3D technology more commonly used in computer games and CGI

Airlander 10 in flight over Bedford's Cardington hangers

Could this airship be the future of sustainable aviation?

13 February 2023

We haven't seen airships in our skies since the days of the Hindenburg disaster but has airship technology matured? New Scientist reporter, Alex Wilkins gets hands-on experience in flying an airship