Donald Hoffman’s interface theory claims space-time may be more like a VR dashboard than reality itself—and some physics may ...

Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice ...

Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the New Scientist Book Club’s read for June to ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

A study of nearly 500 domestic cats uncovered similarities between cancer gene mutations in felines and humans.

That changed in late 2025 when cutting-edge “frontier” AI models became capable of reasoning and planning reliably by themselves. A key feature of these models is “tool calling” – the ability to ...

Albert Einstein proposed two ways to live: seeing nothing as a miracle or everything as one. The former leads to ...

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked structure underlying human language, revealing patterns that extend beyond traditional measures of emotion.

Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has ...

Radical AI’s ‘self-driving’ lab designs and tests new alloys, speeding up a material R&D process that often takes human scientists 20 years or more. Inside a lab in midtown Manhattan, a robotic arm ...

OPINION In his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV warns against equating machine "intelligence" with human ...

The political scientist Lee Drutman argues that we should switch to a system of proportional representation and put an end to ...