2 December 2020
In Watch Dogs: Legion you can play as or team up with any of the characters of the game, and strolling around its digital version of London is a real treat, says Jacob Aron
2 December 2020
From The End of Everything by Katie Mack and How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford to Martha Wells’s Murderbot sc-ifi series, New Scientist’s 2020 gift guide has a book for everyone
30 September 2020
Must-read book The Drone Age by Michael J. Boyle reveals how drone technology is challenging everything we do – and how we think about war and peace
27 November 2019
Cultural evolution defines us as humans, but its products kill as people weaponise consumer tech and climate change threatens Earth, argue two new books
25 October 2019
Seven Worlds, One Planet, David Attenborough’s stunning celebration of Earth’s biodiversity, prepares a new generation to save a beautiful world
19 June 2019
At last week’s games mecca, E3, titles like Watch Dogs Legion and Cyperpunk 2077 played on our uneasiness about tech, channelling the darkness of Netflix’s Black Mirror
4 July 2018
Statisticians Nick Polson and James Scott want us to use AI for good. But their new book AIQ struggles to show us how, says Julie Freeman
27 June 2018
Savvy, old-school patronage may be the only way scientifically complex, sophisticated artworks can be made now – to judge by Europe’s largest art fair
30 December 2017
Compassionate, caring, conflicted, bigoted, self-absorbed, narcissistic, downright evil: as pervasive and powerful AI arrives, it will reflect who we are
29 November 2017
Frantic about how to please your loved ones this festive season? Take a deep breath and plunge into New Scientist's present picks
