Does the old concept of companion planting have any science behind it? 28. May 2025 (20:00) The belief that adding certain plants around crops will boost their growth is an old one, but will your tomatoes' yield and flavour really be improved by growing tasty herbs alongside them? James Wong investigates(New Scientist)
Can imagining a better future really make it come true? 28. May 2025 (18:00) Manifestation is easy to dismiss as unscientific nonsense. Certain techniques used in the practice, though, do work — just not in the magical way some people think, as neuroscientist Sabina Brennan elucidates(New Scientist)
Do we have free will? Quantum experiments may soon reveal the answer 28. May 2025 (17:30) Whether or not we have partial free will could soon be resolved by experiments in quantum physics, with potential consequences for everything from religion to quantum computers(New Scientist)
Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak 28. May 2025 (16:00) Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to shifting temperatures over the past 50,000 years(New Scientist)
You can make fair dice from any shape you like 28. May 2025 (12:57) Want to roll an armadillo when you play Dungeons & Dragons, instead of standard dice? Now you can, thanks to a technique for mapping the probabilities produced by any shape(New Scientist)
The world could experience a year above 2°C of warming by 2029 28. May 2025 (07:00) 2024 was the first single year to surpass the 1.5°C global warming threshold – now scientists predict that a year above 2°C is possible in the near future(New Scientist)
AI-powered weather forecasts could miss extreme storms 27. May 2025 (23:00) Weather forecasts based on AI are faster and sometimes more accurate than traditional ones, but they may miss rare and unprecedented weather events – which are becoming more common as the climate changes(New Scientist)
