An audio drama produced by The Martian author Andy Weir, a fictional autobiography from Michael Moorcock and a new John Scalzi novel – November is a big month for sci-fi fans, says Alison Flood
A woman developed a severe allergic reaction to an antibiotic in her partner's semen after sex, prompting clinicians to call for this risk to be listed on the drug's patient information leaflet
It's unclear how and why Mars once became warm enough to allow water to flow on its surface, but a new idea suggests it comes down to rust below the surface
Billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency have been stolen in just a matter of minutes. Researchers are already unpicking what went wrong
Parts of plants that are usually wasted, from kiwi skin to squash seeds, contain more fibre than the parts of the plant we do eat
Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way. Award-winning author Chris Beckett explains how he thought through the science behind this night world
In this extract from Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet some of the inhabitants of a dark planet that drifts outside the Milky Way, descendants of two astronauts marooned there over a century earlier
Physics is generally built on observations, then the maths that supports them comes later. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan takes a look at an effort to reverse this and rebuild the laws of physics from the maths up
From subconscious finger sniffing to rats driving cars, New Scientist staff have reported on many weird, wild or utterly bonkers discoveries and inventions in the 70 years since we began
Forever chemicals are renowned for their durability and their non-stick properties, but they persist for years in the environment. An alternative inspired by plants doesn't have the same problem
On fast flights across the Atlantic, the body clocks of Manx shearwaters get out of sync with local time, leading them to veer away from the most direct flight path
Breathing out after birth switches off the ability of tissues to regenerate, a study in mice suggests. But the pathway seems to be reversible
Quantum mechanics stands out by being probabilistic and a new analysis suggests that this property can be traced unexpectedly deep into the theory’s mathematical foundations
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
A spinal cord transplant happened in people for the first time during a surgery in Russia, but the evidence underpinning it is lacking
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