Galaxies fling out matter much more violently than we thought 06. October 2025 (21:44) An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some matter previously seemed to have been missing(New Scientist)
General relativity might save some planets from death 06. October 2025 (19:00) Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity(New Scientist)
What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it? 06. October 2025 (18:00) Can you escape your genetic inheritance, and do lifestyle changes actually make a difference? Daniel Cossins set out to understand what the evidence on Alzheimer’s really means for him(New Scientist)
Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance 06. October 2025 (12:42) The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries around how we keep our immune system under control(New Scientist)
There is an odd streak in the universe – and we still don’t know why 03. October 2025 (18:00) Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation from the big bang persists even after a new analysis from radio telescopes(New Scientist)