A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler 17. March 2026 (17:00) You can now buy a humanoid robot housekeeper for less than the price of a second-hand car. But before splashing out, there’s something you need to know(New Scientist)
Particle discovered at CERN solves a 20-year-old mystery 17. March 2026 (10:00) Physicists working on the LHCb experiment have spotted an elusive and fleeting particle, a heavier and more charming cousin to the proton, that has been sought for decades(New Scientist)
Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together 16. March 2026 (17:00) A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be stitched together from interlocking perspectives?(New Scientist)
The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life 16. March 2026 (17:00) All five of the canonical nucleobases – the underpinnings of DNA, RNA and life on Earth – have been found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu(New Scientist)
AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's how to fix it 16. March 2026 (14:00) With the Trump administration’s attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the technology we use fairer and more diverse. Leading voices are speaking out, reports Catherine de Lange(New Scientist)
The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group 16. March 2026 (13:00) Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a mix of peoples from three continents(New Scientist)
