Do black holes eat information or do zero-energy particles nicknamed "hairs" somehow store it instead? Before he died, Stephen Hawking was working on new ideas, as this exclusive extract shows ...

Tech giants are gearing up for a series of potentially bitter legal battles over claims they used copyrighted material in training the latest generation of artificial intelligence ...

Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that it’s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm ...

While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly ...

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, were seen as far south as Cornwall in the UK on Sunday night, and are likely to be visible again on Monday night. Here is how to spot them, says Stargazing at ...

John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the ...

SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, ...

The meaning of life has puzzled philosophers for millennia, but new research suggests it could be as simple as lending a helping hand ...

People with severe covid-19 infections are more than 4 times as likely to later be diagnosed with schizophrenia than people who have not been infected, though the risk of developing the condition is ...

New Scientist is 60 years old this week, and what better way to celebrate a landmark birthday than to wax lyrical about another time. But we’re not going to hark back to the past. We’re going to gaze ...

We are getting close to being able to see signs of life on different worlds, says exoplanet pioneer Didier Queloz. Quantum mechanics is mind-blowing at the best of times. Sean Carroll explores perhaps ...

JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of the deepest mysteries of the universe ...