Mirrors have this strange ability to make us feel uneasy. Maybe it’s because they show us exactly what we look like, or maybe ...

The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.

Researchers have harnessed nonlocal artificial materials to create optical systems that emulate parallel spaces, wormholes, ...

Step into a multisensory experience at Mammut Tower, where technology transforms architecture into an active participant.

Photon interactions in materials typically create a gaseous bosonic state, which is prone to turbulent behaviour that disrupts coherence. But it is now shown that, using fast-gain processes in a ...

Graham Lawton is a staff writer who has worked at New Scientist for 24 years including as features editor, deputy editor and magazine editor. Nowadays he mostly writes features about life sciences, ...