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Conventional computing devices will play a crucial role in turning quantum computers into tools with real-world application...

Grace Chan's debut sci-fi novel Every Version of You delves into the mystery of consciousness and offers a brilliant look at a disturbing future of ra...

When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the proboscis of a female mosquito...

In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how an ingenious way to avoid being...

Google’s latest model reportedly beats its rivals in several benchmark tests, but issues with reliability mean concerns remain over a possible AI bubb...

To make quantum computers more efficient and reliable, some of their basic components must be constantly reused – several quantum computer designs can...

From microscopes to geodes, New Scientist staff share their top Christmas present ideas in a gift guide unlike any you’ve seen before...

These photographs of humanoid robots by Henrik Spohler are part of his project Tomorrow Is the Question...

IBM revealed two new quantum computers, called Loon and Nighthawk – the qubits they use are connected in newly intricate ways and may enable a way to...

High-voltage copper plates can remove up to three-quarters of frost from a surface, while using much less energy than conventional heating...

There is growing evidence that our reliance on generative AI tools is reducing our ability to think clearly and critically, but it doesn’t have to be...

The electric cars of the Formula E racing championship can accelerate faster than Formula 1 cars and their top speeds are catching up – but battery ca...

Several large tech firms that are active in AI have set goals to hit net zero by 2030, but a new forecast of the energy and water required to run larg...

Could an AI scientist help researchers come up with breakthroughs by analysing data and searching the existing scientific literature? That's the claim...

Using the Helios-1 quantum computer, researchers have used a record-breaking number of error-proof qubits to run the first and biggest quantum simulat...

Recent outages have revealed how vulnerable the internet is, but there seems to be no official plan in the event of a catastrophic failure. Meet the t...

Building a working quantum internet would require overcoming a host of technical challenges, but researchers who have built one of the most advanced q...

In this passage from the opening of Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to her protagonist...