How neuroscience and bad studies have fuelled intensive parenting 05. March 2025 (19:00) Motherdom is the latest book to lay bare the shaky science pressuring parents to perfectly steer their children's development from birth. It's a welcome reality check, finds Penny Sarchet(New Scientist)
Scientists want to poke me where, with a what? 05. March 2025 (19:00) Feedback discovers that breasts have been "largely ignored" when it comes to tactile acuity – but is relieved that researchers have acted to change this oversight(New Scientist)
How Moore's law led us to a flawed vision of the future 05. March 2025 (19:00) Back in the 1960s, it seemed like better communications could solve all our problems. Don’t blame the technology for the failure of that dream, says Annalee Newitz(New Scientist)
Rediscover The OA, a tv show with echoes of late director David Lynch 05. March 2025 (19:00) The death of David Lynch, who shaped decades of film and TV, is bound to hurt. Rediscovering a show called The OA helps, with its Twin Peaks-style echoes of small-town US and other Lynchian themes, says Bethan Ackerley(New Scientist)
We need a global environmental court – and we need it now 05. March 2025 (19:00) Our current justice system won't save small island nations like mine. We need a court with the authority to properly address climate change, says Anthony Carmona, a former president of Trinidad and Tobago(New Scientist)
Light has been transformed into a 'supersolid' for the first time 05. March 2025 (17:00) Supersolids are strange materials that behave like both a solid and a fluid due to quantum effects – and now researchers have created an intriguing new type of supersolid from laser light(New Scientist)
The critical computer systems still relying on decades-old code 05. March 2025 (17:00) Software used by banks and the space industry may still rely on archaic code. We went in search of the oldest code in use and asked, what happens when it glitches?(New Scientist)
