Should you water your orchid with ice cubes? 23. April 2025 (20:00) There's a fierce debate raging in the horticulture world over whether adding ice cubes to your orchid is beneficial or damaging for this tropical plant. James Wong investigates(New Scientist)
Dire wolf 'de-extinction' criticised by conservation group 23. April 2025 (18:51) The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think extinct species can be revived, says the International Union for Conservation of Nature(New Scientist)
Ultra-secure quantum data sent over existing internet cables 23. April 2025 (18:00) Two commercial telecommunications facilities have been connected by a secure quantum network that used existing fibre optic cables at room temperature – a key step towards a feasible quantum internet(New Scientist)
Powerful blasts of X-rays could reveal a black hole waking from sleep 23. April 2025 (12:00) Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now astronomers have seen the most powerful one of these signals ever, and have a new idea about their cause(New Scientist)
We can build quantum computers using the rules of special relativity 22. April 2025 (22:00) Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could enable a new kind of quantum computer – and it could also lead to new insights into the quantum realm(New Scientist)
