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From robot rights to ageing and climate change, this month's science fiction squares up to the big topics, with new titles from authors including Nick Harkaway and Eve Smith ...

A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of one plant and the innards of another ...

Squeezing exercise into one or two days a week seems to have similar health benefits as doing the same amount of physical activity spread out throughout the week ...

A termination letter obtained by New Scientist reveals that the Trump administration has gutted the office that runs the country's only nationwide survey on drug use and mental health ...

The concept of nothing once sparked a 1000-year-long war, today it might explain dark energy and nothingness even has the potential to destroy the universe, explains physicist Antonio Padilla ...

Under pressure from Elon Musk's DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust research to educational programmes ...

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique ...

As semaglutide-based weight loss treatments such as Ozempic and Wegovy become more popular, new side effects are emerging - and one is hair loss ...

Urine that has sat in the sun for a while seems to fertilise crops while warding off pests, without affecting the produce's taste ...

At the Dakshineswar temple complex in India, Hanuman langurs beg for food by grabbing visitors' legs or tugging on their clothes - and they don't stop until they get their favourite snacks ...