How a US agriculture agency became key in the fight against bird flu 13. June 2025 (23:00) Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent the spread than public health agencies are(New Scientist)
Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature 13. June 2025 (21:00) Putting unusually large atoms in a box with cold copper sides helped researchers control them for an unprecedented 50 minutes at room-temperature, an improvement necessary for building more powerful quantum computers and simulators(New Scientist)
Perseverance rover may hold secrets to newly discovered Mars volcano 13. June 2025 (20:00) There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that we could use to precisely date the activity of another planet's volcano for the first time(New Scientist)
Microwaves seem to experience imaginary time – and now we know how 13. June 2025 (19:00) Almost a decade ago, researchers calculated that microwaves can seemingly spend an imaginary amount of time within a material – now an experiment reveals how the phenomenon is perfectly real(New Scientist)
Is superintelligent AI just around the corner, or just a sci-fi dream? 13. June 2025 (16:30) Tech CEOs are promising increasingly outlandish visions of the 2030s, powered by "superintelligence", but the reality is that even the most advanced AI models can still struggle with simple puzzles(New Scientist)
The Vera Rubin Observatory is about to completely transform astronomy 12. June 2025 (18:27) With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera Rubin Observatory could be about to start to solving the mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to Planet Nine(New Scientist)
