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)
Is the universe really one big black hole? 07. October 2025 (20:00) According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could the whole cosmos be a black hole?(New Scientist)
One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it? 07. October 2025 (18:00) For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we emit each year - but this climate buffer may be collapsing far sooner than anyone expected(New Scientist)
