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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing its first images on 23 June, showing us galaxies as we’ve never seen them before.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has worked on some unusual projects since Fleabag, the comedy-drama that made her name and broke many a ...

This photo series capturing efforts to save the Chinook salmon of the Klamath river in the western US won the New Scientist Editors Award at the Earth Photo 2025 competition ...

Leah Crane Senior reporter This is my fifth New Scientist Live, and it has never been anything less than delightful. The thing I am most excited for is on Sunday, when Chelsea Whyte and I are ...

After 300 episodes of New Scientist Weekly, it's time for a refresh. Our flagship podcast has a new name but remains a show that can restore optimism and nourish your brain ...

The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley on how she made time travel work in her bestselling novel, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table, first ...

The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley (Sceptre (UK); Avid Reader Press (US)). When you read a lot of novels for work, as I do, it can be hard to get into a new one at first. You have to push on.

An odd solid that can flow like a fluid has been created from light for the first time. Studying it will help researchers better understand exotic quantum states of matter. “We actually made ...