It took one brave doctor to expose the Flint water crisis. Here’s how
The people of Flint, Michigan, were drinking poisoned water, and the authorities were doing nothing. That’s when Mona Hanna-Attisha decided to take action
Spying on whales: The shocking truth about humans and whales
Despite centuries of commercial whaling, we know astonishingly little about the largest creature that ever lived, argues a new book by a leading cetologist
Time travel to Augusts past: cold cod, thawing mammoths, frozen nerves
Old Scientist returns to topics we covered in 1961, 1981 and 1994 and finds that heatwaves were definitely not on the agenda
Don’t miss: Teen superheroes, upgraded dungeons and Naked Scientists
Listen to mind-expanding podcasts, discover the problem with disappearing sand – and watch a new film from the creators of Stranger Things
There’s no escaping the internet, says artist James Bridle
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
New Scientist Live: how can we fix a problem like plastics?
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
Marvel Powers United VR: I saw Captain America’s huge thighs under me
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
Feedback: Firefighters called in to deal with hot chips in Texas
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
Robot laws: 5 new rules that could save human lives (at least on TV)
From Battlestar Galactica to The Terminator, on-screen robots have never been above a little rule-breaking. Could our new laws of robotics keep them in line?
New Scientist Live: are we about to uncover the dark universe?
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