Professor John Wilding discusses how the emergence of groundbreaking new weight-loss drugs is reshaping the science of weight ...

Science journalists tend to approach the edges – or dare I say fringes – of science with caution, and rightly so. But former ...

After watching historical figures travel through time in Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time, the New Scientist Book Club headed in the other direction for our latest read, to the far future and ...

One of my most anticipated books of the year is out this month: a collection of short stories set in the post-apocalyptic devastation of Stephen King’s The Stand. I love a good end-times story, and ...

The New Scientist Book Club made a jump backwards through time for our latest read, Alex Foster’s Circular Motion, moving from the millennia-ahead future of Adam Roberts’s Lake of Darkness to a world ...

New Scientist Book Club has been reading Alex Foster’s debut novel, Circular Motion, in which he charts what would happen if Earth’s rotation sped up by not just a millisecond, but a minute, or an ...

An interstellar object currently hurtling through our solar system will loop around the sun and disappear back into the remote depths of the cosmos within months. Astronomers will be able to capture ...