The world could experience a year above 2°C of warming by 2029 28. May 2025 (07:00) 2024 was the first single year to surpass the 1.5°C global warming threshold – now scientists predict that a year above 2°C is possible in the near future(New Scientist)
AI-powered weather forecasts could miss extreme storms 27. May 2025 (23:00) Weather forecasts based on AI are faster and sometimes more accurate than traditional ones, but they may miss rare and unprecedented weather events – which are becoming more common as the climate changes(New Scientist)
Test of AI weather forecasts shows they miss extreme storms 27. May 2025 (23:00) Weather forecasts based on AI are faster and sometimes more accurate than traditional ones, but they may miss rare and unprecedented weather events – which are becoming more common as the climate changes(New Scientist)
Medieval woman was executed and displayed on London riverbank 27. May 2025 (20:00) A skeleton found in London records a brutal killing about 1200 years ago, thought to be a rare example of a judicial execution of a woman in medieval England(New Scientist)
Humans were crafting tools from whale bones 20,000 years ago 27. May 2025 (18:00) More than 60 ancient tools found in France and Spain have been identified as whale bone, and the evidence shows that people made tools from this material a thousand years earlier than previously thought(New Scientist)
The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds 27. May 2025 (18:00) Your imagination isn't just one thing. The latest neuroscience is untangling just how diverse this faculty really is, says cognitive neurologist Adam Zeman(New Scientist)
Was Planet Nine exiled from the solar system as a baby? 27. May 2025 (17:00) The chance of a planet forming in the outer reaches of the solar system - a hypothetical Planet Nine - could be as high as 40 per cent, but it would have been a rough start(New Scientist)
Your imagination doesn’t get worse as you age – but it does change 27. May 2025 (17:00) It’s natural to associate wild flights of fantasy with children and a more mundane internal world with adult life. The latest research, though, shows that isn't the whole picture(New Scientist)
