New Scientist
The best new science-fiction books of June 2026
There is plenty of intriguing sci-fi on offer this month, whether it’s solar-powered cities from Adr...
Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut th...
Particles of light cannot be divided into smaller particles, but if you try to snip off the end of o...
Aim high but don't shoot for the moon, mathematici...
According to a mathematical model of how people weigh up different outcomes, the optimal strategy is...
Horror video game gets its creepiness from a quant...
Quantum Backrooms is a horror game in which the player explores eerie rooms. The twist is that the r...
We're becoming more individualistic and it's affec...
We're increasingly prioritising our own needs over those of the wider community, which may be causin...
Mirror life: Scientists clash over threat of lab-e...
Bacteria created using mirror images of natural biomolecules would pose a grave threat to life on Ea...
Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in thr...
A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in ...
Q-Day could destroy Bitcoin – and our retirement s...
Even if you’ve never bought any cryptocurrency, like columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, your money...
Glaciers in the 'roof of the world' have suddenly ...
Until recently, the Pamir mountains in central Asia have bucked the global melting trend, but in 202...
Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-ol...
After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematic...
Start-ups are racing to revolutionise mathematics ...
AI start-ups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding are hiring mathematicians and building ...
3D-printed lymph nodes could widen access to CAR T...
The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in ma...
'The book is in the future, but everything is seed...
Helen Phillips, winner of the Climate Fiction prize for her novel Hum, on if stories can make a diff...
Millions of planets might form around supermassive...
Massive amounts of dust swirl around active nuclei at the centres of galaxies, and these discs could...
Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many...
Embryo organoids made from stem cells are enabling scientists to recreate early pregnancy in the lab...
Wealthy people with environmental ideals are the b...
Among people of high socioeconomic status, love for nature corresponds with a bigger environmental f...
NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of...
Three missions slated to launch this year will begin to search the lunar surface for a suitable base...
First quantum grandfather clock could probe where ...
Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping ...
