Machines That Think explores how artificial intelligence helps us understand human intelligence, machines that compose music and write stories - and asks if AI is really a threat.
New Scientist Book order (chronological)






How Numbers Work
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
How Numbers Work is a tour of the mind-blowing but beautiful realm of numbers and the mathematical rules that connect them.
This Book Could Fix Your Life
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A myth-busting, scientifically proven guide to living a healthier, happier life - without the self-help fads
The journey of a lifetime exploring the question of whether life is inevitable or a one-off fluke, and how it got kick-started.
A voyage through the mind to discover what consciousness really is, and what we can learn when it goes awry.
The Earth as you've never seen it before. The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow it evolved to become the most amazing place in the known Universe. The only living planet we know of, it also has a very unusual moon, a remarkably dynamic surface, a complex atmosphere and a deeply mysterious interior. This is Planet Earth is dedicated to the wonders of planet Earth. Its past is long and dramatic and its future shrouded in mystery. Yet despite centuries of research, only now are we starting to understand Earth's complexity.
Why The Universe Exists takes you deep into the world of particle physics to explore how the universe functions at the smallest scales.
A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos.
The story of how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, and how we strode out of Africa, invented farming and cities and ultimately created modern civilisation.
How Your Brain Works
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
In How Your Brain Works leading neuroscientists and New Scientist introduce the evolution and anatomy of the brain viewed through traits such as: memory, emotions, sleep, sensing and perception.






