The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. We liked it – but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

A new X-ray imaging method has captured the first direct evidence of hidden, swirling currents in flowing grains.

About this issue Abstract Joint densities concerning in particular the value and time of the maximum over a fixed time interval, or the behavior over intervals determined by some first- and ...

A new law has allowed parents to save money on uniform, with schools a few days from resuming for many in England and Wales. Most state schools are set to resume from Monday, September 1, and are now ...