Science

The United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time on 8 January, carrying the Peregrine lander to the lunar surface

An artificial skin that delivers a waterproof sense of touch could speed up underwater robotic exploration and ocean clean-up operations while reducing harm to marine life

An artificial intelligence model has unpicked some of the linguistic influences behind England's place names, which could help us to understand their meaning

Cosmology has transformed our understanding of time past and the aeons to come, pointing to a deep future in which life may morph into incredible forms, says Astronomer Royal Martin Rees

Naomi Alderman on the tech billionaires at the heart of her new novel The Future, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club – and the 1974 book that inspired her

In this tantalising extract from Naomi Alderman's new novel The Future, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, a tech chief executive discovers the end of the world is nigh

Military veterans with traumatic brain injury saw drastic reductions in depression and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after using the psychedelic drug ibogaine

Knot theory is linked to many other branches of science, including those that tell us about the cosmos

An analysis of photos taken by Voyager 2 in the 1980s shows that Neptune and Uranus have a similar pale blue hue as perceived by the human eye