Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that it’s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm ...

While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly ...

We have more satellites than ever before, but when they burn up they create a new kind of air pollution. Evidence is now revealing what effects this could have and how to tackle it ...

SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, ...

The meaning of life has puzzled philosophers for millennia, but new research suggests it could be as simple as lending a helping hand ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to the biggest question in the universe, we will need to bring samples back to ...

People with severe covid-19 infections are more than 4 times as likely to later be diagnosed with schizophrenia than people who have not been infected, though the risk of developing the condition is ...

New Scientist is 60 years old this week, and what better way to celebrate a landmark birthday than to wax lyrical about another time. But we’re not going to hark back to the past. We’re going to gaze ...

We are getting close to being able to see signs of life on different worlds, says exoplanet pioneer Didier Queloz. Quantum mechanics is mind-blowing at the best of times. Sean Carroll explores perhaps ...

JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of the deepest mysteries of the universe ...

Ants rely on scent to recognise their comrades, and when they are exposed to common air pollutants, other members of their ...

For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood ...