How Taylor Swift is helping botany gain celebrity status 24. September 2025 (20:00) Feedback is delighted to learn that researchers have discovered what Taylor Swift is accidentally doing to rescue the science of plants from mid-ness. Just take a look at her videos – sorry, botany teaching aids(New Scientist)
What made solar power the most desirable energy source on the planet? 24. September 2025 (20:00) In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the creation of living solar panels transformed their impact on the world(New Scientist)
Amazing images expose inner world of mind-blowing plants and fungi 24. September 2025 (20:00) Surreal images from a new book, Microcosms, show how confocal microscopy that uses laser scanning creates a super-sharp new journey around mind-altering plants and fungi(New Scientist)
A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat 24. September 2025 (20:00) Forget the tropes about how violence or maybe volcanic eruptions killed off our ancient cousins, The Last Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak offers a very different take on how they died out(New Scientist)
If you feel you don't really belong, here is some science-based advice 24. September 2025 (20:00) Thinking you don’t fit in is agonising, whether you are starting at university or changing jobs. Our advice columnist, David Robson, shares some tips to change how you feel(New Scientist)
Device with 6100 qubits is a step towards largest quantum computer yet 24. September 2025 (18:00) An array of 6100 ultracold caesium atoms controlled by lasers is the largest collection of qubits ever assembled, and researchers hope they can soon turn it into the world's most advanced quantum computer(New Scientist)
How faster-than-light explosions could reveal the universe’s secrets 24. September 2025 (18:00) Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to understand the mysteries of neutron stars, gamma ray bursts and more(New Scientist)
World’s oldest person had a young microbiome and 'exceptional genome' 24. September 2025 (18:00) Scientists have studied the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old(New Scientist)
What we know, and don't, about the link between painkillers and autism 23. September 2025 (22:30) Scientific evidence is lacking to support the US government’s decisions to caution against using a common painkiller in pregnancy and fast-track the approval of an experimental medication for autism(New Scientist)
