'Funny' videos of stressed and frightened pets are no laughing matter 30. September 2025 (18:54) Social media is awash with videos of cats and dogs getting startled or hurt for our entertainment. We should all be more alert to poor animal welfare, says Christa Lesté-Lasserre(New Scientist)
Ancient artists created giant camel engravings in the Arabian desert 30. September 2025 (18:00) Almost 200 engravings created around 12,000 years ago have been discovered in Saudi Arabia, including depictions of camels etched into cliff faces over 40 metres high(New Scientist)
The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab 30. September 2025 (18:00) Fermented foods make up a third of what we eat and were mostly discovered by accident centuries ago. Now a fermentation revolution is promising extraordinary new flavours and novel ways to boost gut health(New Scientist)
Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet 30. September 2025 (13:00) The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet of extremely hot plasma – though we have studied it for a century, we are only now seeing it in great detail(New Scientist)
We may finally know what causes will-o’-the-wisps 29. September 2025 (22:00) Mysterious flashes of light seen in swamps and bogs could be caused by burning methane or other gases, ignited by sparks that fly between bubbles in water(New Scientist)
Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at? 29. September 2025 (18:00) Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely(New Scientist)
Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain 29. September 2025 (18:00) A clinical trial has found that VER-01, a drug derived from cannabis, eases chronic lower back pain without serious side effects or signs of addiction(New Scientist)
The most important mathematician you’ve (probably) never heard of 29. September 2025 (16:24) Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before giving it all up and disappearing. Jacob Aron explores what his work meant(New Scientist)
Ultracold clocks could reveal how quantum physics alters time 29. September 2025 (14:00) The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test the boundaries of physics(New Scientist)
