There are a lot of great soundbars out there, and we don’t have room to feature them all. Here are some others you might want to consider. LG’s S95TR for $1,000-1,300: LG’s 9.1.5-channel soundbar (8/10, WIRED Recommends) doesn’t perform as well as Samsung’s flagship Q990 series, but it could be a better choice for those…
Like every piece of gear you wear on your body day in and day out, fitness trackers are incredibly personal. The best fitness tracker should be comfortable, attractive, and fit your lifestyle, including when and how you like to work out. Do you bike, row, or do strength training? Do you run on trails for…
Don’t call your favourite AI “doctor” just yet Just_Super/Getty Images Advanced artificial intelligence models score well on professional medical exams but still flunk one of the most crucial physician tasks: talking with patients to gather relevant medical information and deliver an accurate diagnosis. “While large language models show impressive results on multiple-choice tests, their accuracy…
Gillian Anderson (left) and David Duchovny as agents Scully and Mulder in The X-Files AJ Pics/Alamy Television hasn’t always been kind to science fiction, with smaller budgets to throw at special effects and epic, universe-spanning narratives getting cancelled before their time. But despite all the obstacles, countless series have proved that long-form storytelling on the…
It has been just over five years since the beginning of covid-19 The coronavirus behind covid-19 has infected most people in the world, killing around 15 million people and leaving about 400 million individuals with long-term health problems. It also caused the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Despite all this,…
People with long covid are advised to pace themselves when it comes to being physically active REUTERS/Nacho Doce For many people, the covid-19 pandemic feels like a thing of the past. But for those with long covid, it is far from over. Five years on from when covid-19 turned up, those with lingering symptoms still…
In the first two years of the covid-19 pandemic, New Scientist published almost two dozen editions with reports about the virus and related matters on the cover – an unprecedented run in our nearly 70-year history. They tell a story about our evolving understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, beginning with our 8 February 2020 magazine…
An activist in New York City protests the use of fossil fuels in 2024 Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images At home, I am surrounded by fossils. They are in my clothes, carpets and soft furnishings, the packaging wrapped around the food I buy and the myriad cleaning products I use every day. Even the contact…
Ncuti Gatwa returns for more adventures as the Fifteenth Doctor James Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios If you live in a part of the world where January is a hardscrabble month of inclement weather, you might well be tempted to lock yourself away for the rest of the year, fearing the sun will never return. Should you succumb to…
Yuan Zheng/FeatureChina via AP Images/Alamy Yes, it really has been five years. On 7 January 2020, we published an article with the headline “Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China”. By then, at least 59 people had been infected with what we now know to be SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind covid-19. The rest…