Why you should join a watch party for the first Vera C. Rubin images 18. June 2025 (08:00) The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing its first images on 23 June, showing us galaxies as we’ve never seen them before. Here’s how you can join a party to see those shots in full definition(New Scientist)
UK should expect summers above 40°C in next decade, warns Met Office 18. June 2025 (02:01) Meteorologists say that in the next decade, summer daytime temperatures above 28°C could persist for more than a month, with spikes as high as 46.6°C possible under today’s climate conditions(New Scientist)
Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less risky? 17. June 2025 (22:30) Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere – but at higher altitudes than planes can reach – could cool the climate while avoiding some of the downsides of lower-altitude solar geoengineering(New Scientist)
Biotech firm aims to create ‘ChatGPT of biology’ – will it work? 17. June 2025 (22:13) A UK biotech firm spent years gathering genetic data that has uncovered 1 million previously unknown microbial species and billions of newly identified genes – but even this trove of data may not be enough to train an AI biologist(New Scientist)
Your forgotten memories continue to influence the choices you make 17. June 2025 (19:14) We might not think we remember something, but attempting to recall it still fires up activity in our brain linked to memory, which seems to direct our behaviours(New Scientist)
The surprisingly big impact the small intestine has on your health 17. June 2025 (18:00) The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in appetite, metabolism and the microbiome – and how to look after it better(New Scientist)
Searching for the past and future of quantum physics on a tiny island 17. June 2025 (16:57) According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and recently returned to the island to discuss its future(New Scientist)
The prospectors hunting hydrogen along a US continental rift 16. June 2025 (23:00) A gaggle of companies are searching the US Midwest for underground hydrogen fuel produced by a billion-year-old split in the continent – New Scientist visited one of the first to start drilling(New Scientist)
