It's 30 years since the Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit
8 April 2020
The Hubble Space Telescope didn't work properly when it first launched, but has since produced some of the most iconic images of the universe
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A 50-year-old brief history of universities
25 March 2020
50 years ago, New Scientist looked even further back to the dawn of universities in an 8-page special
New Scientist got an early glimpse of voice recognition technology
11 March 2020
In 1990, we wrote about a computer system that could recognise continuous speech and may, we predicted, "form the basis of a personal computer controlled by voice".
Learning whilst you sleep was big business in the Soviet Union
26 February 2020
“Sleep-learning,” we observed half a century ago “is big business in the Soviet Union.” A slew of studies, experiments and trials from behind the Iron Curtain showed an enthusiasm for pumping information, such as lists of foreign words, into people whilst...
Sixty years ago the world’s largest particle accelerator switched on
12 February 2020
When CERN’s Proton Synchrotron switched on 60 years ago it ushered in a new era for particle physics
The life of Veronique Le Guen, record-breaking caver
29 January 2020
Veronique Le Guen died in 1990, just two years after she had set a world record for the most time spent alone in an underground cavern
Did a massive nuclear antenna make Michigan’s trees grow taller?
15 January 2020
Project ELF was a 90-kilometre antenna buried under Michigan’s forests to communicate with nuclear submarines – with strange consequences for the surrounding nature
Did an asteroid impact 65 million years ago really kill the dinosaurs?
1 January 2020
The idea that a falling asteroid caused the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs surfaced 40 years ago. At the time, our reaction was rather sceptical
How we predicted global warming and Arctic ice melt – 40 years ago
11 December 2019
New Scientist was well ahead of the curve in 1979 when we warned that the 'so-called carbon dioxide greenhouse effect' threatened long-term climate change
The Bhopal disaster 35 years on: Why the full truth remains unknown
27 November 2019
On the night of 2 December 1984, a chemical leak from a pesticides plant killed thousands in the Indian city of Bhopal – but no one has really been called to account
