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Despite centuries of commercial whaling, we know astonishingly little about the largest creature that ever lived, argues a new book by a leading cetologist

Old Scientist returns to topics we covered in 1961, 1981 and 1994 and finds that heatwaves were definitely not on the agenda

Listen to mind-expanding podcasts, discover the problem with disappearing sand – and watch a new film from the creators of Stranger Things

In New Dark Age, James Bridle expends no little shoe leather mapping the current walls of our eerie futuristic home, in the real and the virtual realm

Plastic is the material we love to hate, but can we do anything about it? That’s the subject of a major panel debate at this year’s New Scientist Live

Want to be Black Panther from Wakanda? Or Captain America, Black Widow or Spider-Man? Now virtual reality is finally coming to domestic gaming PCs, you have the chance

Does anyone have some cool ranch dip? Plus: boxes that make the contents lighter, midnight sun in the UK, the original motion picture, and more

Astrophysicists are coming to London this September to describe how we might be about to crack the greatest mysteries of the universe - dark matter and dark energy

From election-rigging bots to potentially lethal autonomous cars, artificial intelligence is straining legal boundaries. Here's what we need to keep it in check