From the start, Mega was riven by infighting. In the 1990s, it merged with another society and announced that members would ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I asked our team of expert science writers here at New Scientist to name their favourite science fiction ... those big ideas and to carry the story forward.

Our recommendations for summer reading in 2025, featuring many books from Wisconsin writers, and including selections for children and teens.

We met Lyonne in a corner of the studio where uncanny clips generated by Asteria’s AI model were playing on a dozen ...

Good fight movies take many different forms and teach many different lessons, but they all have one thing in common: At some ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

This fanciful yet scientifically guided tale describes a visit to the Moon, and is considered by many the first work of ...

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman is “deeply obsessed” with the 2013 film Her, according to technology journalist Karen ...

June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a ...

But fictional portraits of AI have pretty much never looked like the actual present of AI. All those killer Terminators, rebellious Westworld robots, and nuke-hijacking supercomputers have nothing to ...

many are revisiting his Marathi science fiction works that anticipated global crises long before it occurred. His story “Athenscha Plague” (The Plague in Athens), written over three decades ...