Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick 12. March 2025 (17:00) Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires(New Scientist)
The first operating system for quantum networks has been built 12. March 2025 (17:00) As a step towards a useful and ultra-secure quantum internet, researchers have created an operating system that coordinates connected quantum computers, no matter what hardware they use(New Scientist)
A fresh understanding of tiredness reveals how to get your energy back 12. March 2025 (17:00) Radical new insights from the science of interoception – how the body senses its internal state – explain the real reasons we feel tired all the time, and how to re-energise(New Scientist)
Signs of Terry Pratchett’s dementia may have been hidden in his books 12. March 2025 (16:34) Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a type of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, in 2007 – but an analysis of his Discworld books suggests there were signs of the condition a decade earlier(New Scientist)
Doubts cast over D-Wave's claim of quantum computer supremacy 12. March 2025 (16:14) D-Wave's claim that its quantum computers can solve problems that would take hundreds of years on classical machines have been undermined by two separate research groups showing that even an ordinary laptop can perform similar calculations(New Scientist)
Saturn has 128 new moons – more than the rest of the planets combined 11. March 2025 (21:20) Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?(New Scientist)
Saturn gains 128 moons, giving it more than the other planets combined 11. March 2025 (21:20) Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?(New Scientist)
The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought 11. March 2025 (21:11) Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic(New Scientist)
The biggest coincidence in human evolution 11. March 2025 (18:00) Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other – how did it crop up independently at about the same time?(New Scientist)
