Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami 06. May 2026 (15:00) When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 million cubic metres of rock fell into the fjord, causing a 5.4 magnitude seismic event
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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award 06. May 2026 (12:00) Prize-winning young writer Hasset Kifle, 17, explores how the world of super-competitive running is being transformed by so-called “super shoes” – and what cost this will have on the sport(New Scientist)
Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia 06. May 2026 (02:01) Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about 30,000 years ago when the west of the continent dried out(New Scientist)
The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over 05. May 2026 (18:00) Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in the earth could be growing it naturally. Now one scientist says he has proof he’s found them(New Scientist)
Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk 05. May 2026 (18:00) NHS England is pulling its open-source software from the internet because of fears around computer-hacking AI models like Mythos. Opposition is growing among those who say the move is bad for transparency and efficiency, and will also do nothing to improve security(New Scientist)
The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it 05. May 2026 (11:00) One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane says this leaves us with a puzzle that could make or break physics as we know it(New Scientist)
