New Scientist

New Scientist covers the latest developments in science and technology that will impact your world. New Scientist employs and commissions the best writers in their fields from all over the world. Our editorial team provide cutting-edge news, award-winning features and reports, written in concise and clear language that puts discoveries and advances in the context of everyday life today and in the future.

Elsewhere on New Scientist

New Scientist

High-stakes gamble • The world will be watching what happens after England’s covid-19 restrictions are lifted

In the line of fire • The North American heatwave scenes must make plain the costs of climate inaction

Delta on the rise globally • Restrictions in England are coming to an end as many countries are struggling to control cases of the variant, reports Michael Le Page

The heat is on out west • A devastating heatwave in the western US and Canada highlights how urgently we must adapt to long-standing droughts and worsening wildfires, reports Adam Vaughan

What is a heat dome?

Did Neanderthals get the sniffles? • DNA suggests cold viruses have infected us for millennia – and possibly predate our species

Solar sail spacecraft could intercept interstellar objects

Mini-heart grown in the lab pumps fluid like the real thing

New type of digital image could slash global data use

“We didn’t hold back” • The women who developed the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine tell Clare Wilson what went on behind the scenes to create a covid-19 vaccine that has saved thousands of lives

How male seahorses get pregnant • A genetic analysis has found seahorses are missing key genes – and reveals a new mystery

Early farmers in the Atacama desert were brutally violent

Common aquarium fish could help reveal how teeth evolved

AI-guided combat drone swarm used in Gaza attacks

An end to ‘surveillance capitalism’? • Internet giants are talking about tightening up online privacy, but these moves aren’t just about the customers, writes Matthew Sparkes

A rare specimen • Strange new fairy lantern plant is already critically endangered

Beetle walks on underside of water’s surface

Welcome to Icelandia, a possible new continent

Skull reveals oldest case of the plague

Tiniest dwarf star may go out in a bang

Really brief

Stomach of cows can digest plastic

Fossil dung reveals remains of ancient species of beetle

New malaria vaccine uses live parasites

Language revamp needed • The terminology used in genetics needs a complete overhaul to break free from its problematic past, says Adam Rutherford

The technologies of tomorrow • We need a new information revolution, one that prepares us for a warming world with extreme weather, writes Annalee Newitz

Stellar shots

A difficult dilemma • What if a prenatal test reveals your surrogate fetus has a medical condition? The tensions are brilliantly played out in a new film, finds Clare Wilson

The dog that ‘talked’ • Is a dog called Stella really the world’s first talking dog? Chris Stokel-Walker explores the claims in a book by her owner

Don’t miss

A romp across the multiverse • Amazing visuals, cinematic techniques like never before and inventive weapons – Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is perfectly timed to take full advantage of the PlayStation 5 console, says Jacob Aron

Your letters

Healthcare’s future • A New Scientist online event revealed the scientific advances that will keep our minds and bodies in the best of health. Layal Liverpool tuned in

Consciousness expanded • How a physical brain creates the feeling of being is one of life’s greatest mysteries – but one we are starting to...