Iron Age site was a purple dye factory for centuries 16. April 2025 (21:00) Beginning around 3000 years ago, Tel Shiqmona in modern-day Israel was a major centre for the production of Tyrian purple, a valuable commodity produced from marine snails(New Scientist)
Ancient humans may have faced radiation risk 41,000 years ago 16. April 2025 (21:00) A weakening of Earth’s magnetic field known as the Laschamps event would have increased the threat of solar radiation, perhaps requiring ancient humans to invent protective measures(New Scientist)
The race to visit the asteroid making the closest pass by Earth 16. April 2025 (20:00) Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely close flyby in 2029 to learn how to deflect others like it(New Scientist)
Inside the outlandish, futuristic dreams of the tech bros 16. April 2025 (20:00) Exposing the origins of the improbable – and at times scary – plans of tech billionaires makes Adam Becker's More Everything Forever a disturbing but important book(New Scientist)
It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless 16. April 2025 (20:00) Feedback was pleased to come across journalist Taylor Lorenz's coining of the word "viralflation", as videos with hundreds of millions of hits proliferate across the internet(New Scientist)
Why I still love reckoning with the quantum gravity problem 16. April 2025 (20:00) General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein(New Scientist)
Why saying no is so hard and what we can do about it 16. April 2025 (20:00) Why is saying no to other people so difficult – even when we really know we should? Sunita Sah's new book Defy has some novel ideas about the interpersonal forces holding us back(New Scientist)
