Electric vehicles race combustion cars in 'battle of technologies'
12 September 2024
‘Battle of Technologies’ sees electric vehicles and combustion cars compete at the highest level. Who will win?
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Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s humanoid robot paving way to the moon and Mars
11 September 2024
NASA’s Valkyrie is undergoing tests to understand what it would take to get a humanoid robot onto offshore facilities or into space. New Scientist's James Woodford took the controls to see what it is capable of
NATO tests autonomous drone technology in DARPA-style competition
6 September 2024
In a basement beneath City St George's, University of London, senior NATO leaders watch on as four research teams demonstrate the latest in AI-controlled, autonomous drone technolo0gy
How to spot deepfakes and AI-generated images
4 September 2024
It can be difficult to spot AI generated videos known as deepfakes, but there are ways to spot one if you know what to look for
CERN's CLOUD experiment studies role of aerosols on clouds and climate
3 September 2024
At CERN's CLOUD experiment, physicists are studying the link between aerosols, cosmic rays and cloud formation and using the data to inform climate models
Inside NASA's lab exploring conditions for life on other worlds
27 August 2024
The Origins and Habitability Lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a testbed exploring how geological conditions could impact life in environments such as early Earth, Mars or the icy moons of Jupiter
How Great British Bake Off's Josh Smalley tempers chocolate
25 August 2024
Great British Bake Off finalist Josh Smalley teaches New Scientist how to temper chocolate
Sam Howell: ‘One day we might look for life directly on Europa’
21 August 2024
Sam Howell tells New Scientist why NASA is so keen to visit Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa, and how the mission could help us figure out the likelihood of life elsewhere in the cosmos
Can AI make crime scene investigations less biased?
21 August 2024
AI tools could help eliminate human bias in forensic investigations, say UCL scientists, who are using eye-tracking technology to study decision-making in skeletal analysis and crime scene examinations
Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right
16 August 2024
Space exploration has long been a staple of sci-fi films and TV, yet most play fast and loose with the laws of physics, and scientific fact often couldn't be further from the truth