Horror video game gets its creepiness from a quantum computer 29. May 2026 (15:00) Quantum Backrooms is a horror game in which the player explores eerie rooms. The twist is that the rooms have been generated by a quantum computer(New Scientist)
Mirror life: Scientists clash over threat of lab-engineered bacteria 29. May 2026 (14:00) Bacteria created using mirror images of natural biomolecules would pose a grave threat to life on Earth, some researchers warn, but a new study suggests they would struggle to survive in the wild(New Scientist)
Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients 29. May 2026 (11:00) A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in an initial safety trial, raising hopes that it may help to beat the deadly condition(New Scientist)
Q-Day could destroy Bitcoin – and our retirement savings 29. May 2026 (11:00) Even if you’ve never bought any cryptocurrency, like columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, your money may be affected by Bitcoin’s fate – which is uncertain, as quantum computing advances are threatening to make the encryption protecting it useless(New Scientist)
Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins 29. May 2026 (10:30) Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the New Scientist Book Club’s read for June to mark 50 years since the popular science classic was first published(New Scientist)
Glaciers in the 'roof of the world' have suddenly started melting 29. May 2026 (08:00) Until recently, the Pamir mountains in central Asia have bucked the global melting trend, but in 2025, the region’s glaciers experienced a massive loss of ice due to extreme heat(New Scientist)
Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-old problem 28. May 2026 (18:00) After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the same technique to solve another important problem(New Scientist)
Start-ups are racing to revolutionise mathematics with AI 28. May 2026 (15:00) AI start-ups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding are hiring mathematicians and building AI systems that they hope will not only solve mathematics, but also build more intelligent AI(New Scientist)
3D-printed lymph nodes could widen access to CAR T-cell therapy 28. May 2026 (14:00) The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world. But a new way of making these cells could dramatically drive down the cost(New Scientist)
