Photos reveal unexpected details from the world's first atomic test 20. May 2026 (20:00) Previously classified photos and documents show the scientific work that went into the world's first atomic test in 1945 – a test that, just weeks later, would see nuclear bombs dropped in Japan(New Scientist)
How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time 20. May 2026 (20:00) On a visit to the UK, Sydney-based reporter James Woodford visited an archaeological site that was on his bucket list – and experienced a very special moment as the sun set(New Scientist)
Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare? 20. May 2026 (20:00) Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments(New Scientist)
Shiver me timbers: Do we have to worry about space pirates now? 20. May 2026 (20:00) Feedback goes down a "moon warfare" rabbit hole and discovers that some forward-thinkers are making plans to counteract as-yet-hypothetical pirates in space(New Scientist)
New Scientist recommends a devastating account of farming honeybees 20. May 2026 (20:00) Jennie Durant's Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas Lewton. But the book's grim figures of bee death alone may not prompt deep change – how about seeing them as fellow creatures?(New Scientist)
PMOS shows us why many scientific terms need to be renamed 20. May 2026 (20:00) Like covid-19 and mpox before it, the decision to relabel PCOS as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome is a welcome one – and reveals why a name is never just a name(New Scientist)
We could generate hydrogen from rocks while storing CO2 in them 20. May 2026 (19:00) Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a double win on the climate front, and several groups are trying to make it happen(New Scientist)
Putting CO2 into rocks and getting hydrogen out is climate double win 20. May 2026 (19:00) Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a double win on the climate front, and several groups are trying to make it happen(New Scientist)
The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up 20. May 2026 (16:00) When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to teach us in today’s genetic age(New Scientist)
