Inside the outlandish, futuristic dreams of the tech bros 16. April 2025 (20:00) Exposing the origins of the improbable – and at times scary – plans of tech billionaires makes Adam Becker's More Everything Forever a disturbing but important book(New Scientist)
It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless 16. April 2025 (20:00) Feedback was pleased to come across journalist Taylor Lorenz's coining of the word "viralflation", as videos with hundreds of millions of hits proliferate across the internet(New Scientist)
Why I still love reckoning with the quantum gravity problem 16. April 2025 (20:00) General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein(New Scientist)
Why saying no is so hard and what we can do about it 16. April 2025 (20:00) Why is saying no to other people so difficult – even when we really know we should? Sunita Sah's new book Defy has some novel ideas about the interpersonal forces holding us back(New Scientist)
Black Mirror returns full of delights and disappointments 16. April 2025 (20:00) Black Mirror's new season is a mixed bag, ranging from a sublimely plotted romp to one of the worst episodes to date. And it's still playing fast and loose with its sci-fi concepts, finds Bethan Ackerley(New Scientist)
Living material made from fungus could make buildings more sustainable 16. April 2025 (18:00) Researchers have used a fungus and bacteria to create rigid, living structures similar to bone and coral, which could one day be used as a self-repairing building material(New Scientist)
