Author: New Scientist

Introduced by Jim Al-KhaliliCould you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?...

Ever wondered what's going on inside your head?You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are someho...

Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories fro...

The Earth as you''ve never seen it before. The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home...

Why aren't there any green mammals?Is eating bogeys bad for you?Do dolphins and whales get thirsty?Why can't you tickle yourself?Where do astronaut...

Ever wondered . . . - what is earwax for?- when is the moon blue?- why are there only two sexes?- do doctors live longer?Informative, hilarious, so...

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6...

Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk t...

From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies soldDo Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to...

As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your b...

What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and ...

Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them ...

Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superinte...

A Sunday Times bestsellerHow long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journey...

What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-...

Congratulations! You''re the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped wi...

Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk ...

There''''s a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orb...

There's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space. Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interst...