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)
Where exactly does the quantum world end and concrete reality begin? 16. April 2025 (16:00) Quantum effects like superposition and entanglement have long been seen in single particles, but physicists are on a quest to find out just how big an object can be before it loses its quantumness(New Scientist)
Could the ancient Greeks have invented quantum theory? 16. April 2025 (16:00) There were hints that the world may be quantum long before the development of quantum mechanics in 1925 – could we have come up with this revolutionary theory hundreds or even thousands of years earlier?(New Scientist)
