By the tech standards of today, USB 2.0 seems very dated—it's not especially fast and it doesn't offer much in the way of ...

Strange metals challenge the 60-year-old theory that electric current consists of a flow of discrete charges. Strange metals ...

The new proof broadly consists of three steps: derive the macroscopic theory from the mesoscopic one; derive the mesoscopic ...

Their findings, published on April 3 in Physical Review Letters, mark a major breakthrough in the century-old mystery of bound states in the continuum (BIC). Many technologies around us -- from ...

Researchers are excited not just because a 50-year-old physics prediction has been confirmed but also because of what this could mean for quantum technology. Collective quantum states at the SRPT ...

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its triangle-shaped teeth may finally reveal its intended purpose.

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on a reread, Emily H. Wilson looks at how it holds up ...

Before Stephen Sondheim’s death in 2021, tribute concerts recurred so regularly that it sometimes seemed his birthday came around at least twice a year. Not that musical theater lovers ...

A pair of 4,000-year-old cymbals might have helped immigrants integrate into new cultures in the ancient world 1. Humans have been making music for millennia. By the third millennium bc ...

Featuring a Depression-era private eye, “Shadow Ticket” will be the 87-year-old writer’s first book since 2013. By Alexandra Alter The elusive novelist Thomas Pynchon will publish a new book ...

We immediately reported this to the Israel Antiquities Authority.” It turned out the stone that 3.5-year-old Ziv had found was actually a 3,800-year-old Canaanite scarab seal from the Middle ...