Terkko Navigator / New Scientist Nanotechnology Special Report

Grapes in a microwave generate a fiery plasma and now we know why

This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds

PTSD may one day be treated with a common blood pressure drug

Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people

The Wall review– A dystopian adventure for the climate change era

Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms

There is No Planet B review: How to save Earth by changing humans

AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable

Fears of OpenAI’s super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown

A dialect quiz shows we still cling to our regional identities

The children striking over climate change speak to New Scientist

Russia’s plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating

How humans evolved to be both shockingly violent and super-cooperative

Meet the man who made CRISPR monkey clones to study depression

Interstellar‘Oumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe

Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species

A gut bacteria toxin that damages DNA may be involved in bowel cancer

CRISPR could help us protect ourselves from viruses like flu and HIV

The last black leopard photographed in Kenya was born in New York

NASA's photo archives reveal 60 years of space travel

Evidence of new physics could have been under our noses all along

Find tonic water bitter? Part of your brain may be on the small side

Can teenagers get vaccinated without their parents’ permission?

Offspring from older sperm are fitter and age more slowly

Robot mimics desert ants to find its way home without GPS

No plugs needed: How wireless charging could set electric cars free

Breast pumps may introduce harmful bacteria to babies’ gut microbiome

Smart skin sticker could detect asthma attacks before they happen

The truth about cheese: The terrible costs of our favourite food

Slime-fighting slug can superglue enemy frogs to trees for days

Wild black leopard photographed in Africa for first time in 100 years

Opportunity Mars rover is probably dead after 15-year mission

Cassowaries’ strange headgear helps them stay cool in the heat

Chimp sign language and human communication follow the same rules

The US plans to launch swarms of attack drones from robo-submarines

AI has helped rescue children trafficked for sexual exploitation

DNA test could boost IVF success rates without putting embryo at risk

Green New Deal proposal includes free higher education and fair pay

Sailors spread the ancient fashion for monuments like Stonehenge

Controversial fossils suggest life began to move 2.1 billion years ago

AI paediatrician makes diagnoses from records better than some doctors

Distant Ultima Thule is a weirdly flat snowman that defies explanation

Huge global extinction risk for insects could be worse than we thought

Women in physics: Why there's a problem and how we can solve it

Orchids at Kew Gardens review– celebrating the colour of Colombia

Tyrannosaurus rex might have accidentally helped fruit grow

Game theory says Brexit negotiations are now all about avoiding blame

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, the godfather of caffeine

Universal income study finds money for nothing won't make us work less

Beer before wine or wine before beer: the hangover is the same