New Scientist tackles eight of the deepest challenges faced by science – from reality and consciousness, to free will and death, in The Big Questions special features. No human discovery could have ...

A scientist is supposed to write within his field of expertise as a matter of noblesse oblige, writes Erwin Schrödinger, one of the architects of modern quantum science, in his 1944 book What Is Life?

I watch Rufus, a friend’s dog, chew enthusiastically on a rubber bone. I know the dog is alive, and his toy is not. I know that intuitively. But can I prove it scientifically? Can science parse the ...