Super 8 film captured this close-up of a silver-washed fritillary butterfly Nature Hunter Film Ltd Super NatureEd Sayers, In UK cinemas in 2026 Ed Sayers, a director of commercials and music videos, has a passion for Super 8, a motion-picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak. He’s not alone: the dinky film cassettes survive…
It is a familiar pattern. A new website or app arrives that is so good you just have to try it. It’s free, so why not? You and millions of others quickly become hooked, using it every day. But then it starts to change. Some of your favourite features can now only be used for…
The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along with the victim. The film’s director, Alfred Hitchcock, reportedly later said that “33 percent of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.” In…
The South Pole Telescope, which CMB-S4 would have used to measure variations in the temperature and polarisation of microwave light across most of the sky. Brad Benson, University of Chicago, Fermilab Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken opens with “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/ And sorry I could not travel both”. These…
Human spaceflight is on the cusp of an intriguing new dawn. For 25 years, astronauts have lived and worked onboard the International Space Station (ISS), starting with the arrival of its first occupants on November 2, 2000. Built through a partnership between the U.S. and Russia in the aftermath of the cold war, the ISS…
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com Digging in There are few things Feedback appreciates more than a truly committed hobbyist: someone who happily spends months or even years building something that is of…
November 1, 2025 3 min read COVID During Pregnancy May Raise Autism Risk, Study Suggests A new study adds to the evidence that viral infections during pregnancy might contribute to a child’s likelihood of having autism By Tanya Lewis edited by Jeanna Bryner People who catch COVID while pregnant might have a higher likelihood of…
A Cornish Rex cat named Stella Tim Flach Cats are distinctive animals: domesticated for centuries, revered and reviled in equal measure throughout history and bred to match our own aesthetic tastes and whims. From a sensational internet fluffball to his own domestic longhair Loki, renowned animal photographer Tim Flach explores the world of cats in…
We come into the world screaming and vulnerable—entirely dependent on adult caregivers to keep us safe and teach us how to connect with others. The nature of these earliest relationships influences how we behave towards others and see the world long after we’ve grown—but in more complex and nuanced ways than researchers previously thought, according…
“What does it really mean to upload your consciousness into intangible space?” Francesco Carta/Getty In Every Version of You, the characters face an impossible choice: upload your mind into a virtual utopia, or crumble away in the abandoned physical world. Mind-uploading is familiar to us as a science fiction trope, often anchoring relationship dramas and…
