How pie-in-the-sky conspiracies distract from climate dangers 08. October 2025 (20:00) The conspiracy theory that bad actors use "chemtrails" from aircraft to poison us sucks energy from legitimate protest against aviation's effects on the climate, says Graham Lawton(New Scientist)
Hannah Ritchie's new book on net zero is a breath of fresh air 08. October 2025 (20:00) Clearing the Air answers all your burning questions about the net-zero transition, with optimistic, data-led insights designed to address misinformation about climate change, says Madeleine Cuff(New Scientist)
Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant 08. October 2025 (20:00) Brian Cory Dobbs's documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there's some value in how it inadvertently documents a generation of otherwise-sensible scientists, says Simon Ings(New Scientist)
Learning to play nice with other people 08. October 2025 (20:00) How did cooperation emerge in a cut-throat world? There are clues in the prisoner's dilemma experiment, says Peter Rowlett(New Scientist)
Memory chips just 10 atoms thick could vastly increase capacity 08. October 2025 (18:00) A memory chip just 10 atoms thick has been tested in a lab and integrated into conventional chips, demonstrating a technology that could improve the capacity of our devices(New Scientist)
The moon's largest crater didn't form in the way we thought 08. October 2025 (18:00) The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as previously thought – and NASA’s upcoming mission could investigate further(New Scientist)
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on molecular architecture 08. October 2025 (12:58) Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have been honoured for the development of metal-organic frameworks, porous materials that can capture water or pollutants(New Scientist)
