Have we vastly underestimated the total number of people on Earth? 18. March 2025 (11:00) A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially inflating the global population beyond the official count of 8.2 billion - but not everyone agrees(New Scientist)
Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we don’t know why 17. March 2025 (18:00) NASA’s InSight lander recorded surprisingly large quakes that indicate Mars is more seismically active than we first thought. Mysteriously, they only happen during Martian summers(New Scientist)
LHC finds intriguing new clues about our universe's antimatter mystery 17. March 2025 (17:00) Analysing the aftermath of particle collisions has revealed two new instances of “CP violation”, a process that explains why our universe contains more matter than antimatter(New Scientist)
Rolling boulders on Titan could threaten NASA's Dragonfly mission 17. March 2025 (15:00) The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put NASA's upcoming Dragonfly mission at risk(New Scientist)
Gravity may arise from quantumness of space 17. March 2025 (12:00) Scientists have long sought the particle that carries the force of gravity, but a new theoretical model tosses out that idea entirely – and shows how it could be tested in experiments(New Scientist)
Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang 17. March 2025 (11:00) The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our Milky Way(New Scientist)
What makes a good day a good day, according to science 17. March 2025 (10:00) Surveys that ask thousands of people how they spend their time have revealed some surprising activities that seem to make any given day a good one(New Scientist)
