Science
Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton
Two extremely precise experiments agree with a previously shocking measurement of just how big the proton is,...
New Scientist recommends sampling the Museum of Edible Earth in London
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war
Researchers who observed a murderous conflict unfolding in a once-unified group of wild chimpanzees say there...
CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'
A woman with three different autoimmune conditions had all of them treated simultaneously by genetically modif...
Mysterious 'compound X' clears toxic Parkinson’s proteins from brain
A drug known only as compound X helped to remove the problematic proteins associated with Parkinson's disease...
Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms - despite the big names
Elizabeth Banks stars as an author shrunk by her scientist husband Matthew Macfadyen in this major new series...
Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica’s m...
Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago
A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in...
Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?
Feedback is delighted by the discovery of a very specific scientific sculpture park in China – and wonders if...
What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi
A fresh and important book reveals the messy reality of our ever-mutating cells – and why the quest to defeat...
Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic
Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the At...
Stunning photographs show the dynamic patterns of the natural world
A new book from photographer Jon McCormack collects his shots of patterns in nature from around the world, fro...
Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time
A method that relies on hitting materials with neutrons can measure how much quantum entanglement hides within...
Disappearing megafauna may have prompted a stone tool revolution
Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift t...
The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve
John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to f...
Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book
James Watson’s The Double Helix is probably one of the greatest science books of all time – but Michael Le Pag...
Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time
By tracing the origins of an unusual, short-lived particle, researchers have gathered some of the strongest ev...
How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end
Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether l...