We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

Hundreds of people have gathered at Stonehenge for the winter solstice. The winter solstice is the day of the year with the fewest hours of daylight. The shortest day lasts 07 hours 49 minutes and 42 ...

A new generation of South Australian filmmakers is helping to take the state’s screen industry back to levels of activity not ...

The "zebra" pattern is unique to a single emission from the Crab Pulsar, unlike the typical broadband pulses seen in other ...

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it -- an effect dismissed as an ...

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it — an effect dismissed as an ...

Before becoming interplanetary, humanity needs to achieve Type 1 civilization status. Energy from nuclear fusion could help ...

It's been three years since Henry Cavill's dark Superman was on screen in the Snyder Cut of Justice League, seven years since ...

There are always new frontiers in health care: diseases whose treatment and cures still elude us; biological and medical ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

In our 1959 summer and autumn issue, Jonas Mekas, the then editor of the American magazine Film Culture, reports from the inside, as it were, on new trends in the non-Hollywood American cinema.