Starlink satellites are leaking radio signals that may ruin astronomy 09. June 2025 (19:00) Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which seem to be unintentionally leaking radio signals that overpower astronomers' telescopes(New Scientist)
Forest crisis sparks alarm that Europe will miss net-zero targets 09. June 2025 (11:00) Extreme weather, pest outbreaks and overharvesting are turning forest carbon sinks into carbon sources across Europe, undermining a crucial part of countries’ net-zero plans(New Scientist)
US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are other vaccines next? 06. June 2025 (18:09) When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies, he bypassed standard protocols and set the stage for future vaccine rollbacks(New Scientist)
Could we build space-time computers that run on gravity? 06. June 2025 (18:00) New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may form a foundation for future space-time computers(New Scientist)
Japan's Resilience moon lander has crashed into the lunar surface 06. June 2025 (13:03) An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor(New Scientist)
We may have discovered the first-ever stars powered by dark matter 06. June 2025 (12:23) Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have actually found some of these unusual cosmic objects(New Scientist)
The best new science fiction books of June 2025 06. June 2025 (11:00) June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a virus makes us kinder(New Scientist)