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The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel "Circular Motion". We liked it - but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction ...

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic novel The Dispossessed. In this extract from its opening, we get our first glimpse of the planet Anarres ...

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "The Dispossessed". Here, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin considers the artistic process behind it - and why it still resonates today ...

Surgery, not antibiotics, might be the best way to treat chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition that leaves people with a permanently blocked or runny nose and a reduced sense of smell ...

Social media platforms will soon have to exclude children under 16 in Australia, but there are doubts over how age verification tools will work - and whether this is the right approach to deal with online harms ...

Several countries now offer at-home vaginal swabs to detect HPV status in place of traditional cervical cancer screening, but urine tests seem to work just as well ...

Eczema can be very distressing for children - and now it seems that its roots may at least partly lie in their mothers experiencing high levels of stress during pregnancy ...

People used to experience an "unhappiness hump" around midlife, but declining youth mental health may mean that is no longer the case ...

A fossil discovered in Patagonia shows a 3.5-metre-long reptile from the late Cretaceous with large, serrated teeth capable of slicing through muscle ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances that meant an optical telescope with an effective mirror size of 3000 km could be built on the moon ...