Social media is dead – here’s what comes next 23. July 2025 (20:00) A new information ecosystem is on the rise, featuring closer connections, cosy media and worker-owned websites, writes Annalee Newitz(New Scientist)
Anthropic AI goes rogue when trying to run a vending machine 23. July 2025 (20:00) Feedback watches with raised eyebrows as Anthropic's AI Claude is given the job of running the company vending machine, and goes a little off the rails(New Scientist)
Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark 23. July 2025 (20:00) Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she is hardly the first of her kind, says Sophie Bushwick(New Scientist)
Triumphant images of women who climbed to new heights 23. July 2025 (20:00) Mountaineering Women: Climbing through history tells the stories of more than a dozen female climbers who have conquered the world's greatest peaks(New Scientist)
The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on 23. July 2025 (20:00) Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she explores Christopher Priest’s extraordinary novel, The Prestige(New Scientist)
Simple skincare routine could stop babies developing eczema 23. July 2025 (18:00) Keeping a baby's skin moisturised could significantly reduce their risk of eczema - but perhaps only for babies that aren't genetically at risk(New Scientist)
AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire 23. July 2025 (18:00) Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.(New Scientist)
Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers 23. July 2025 (18:00) A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs(New Scientist)
