New Summer SFF featuring MA Carrick, Elijah Chan, Seth Hayden and more There’s nothing like a summer reading challenge to get you in the proper mindset for the season. Many of us grew up eating personal pizzas as a reward for reading a certain number of books; These days, my kids get coupons for ice
Researchers claim they are close to creating life from scratch after creating tiny, quivering blobs that use lab-made DNA to feed, grow and multiply in a dish. To find out how important this step is, and what direction scientists hope it will take, Madeleine Finley spoke with co-host Ian Sample and Kate Adamala, professor of
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC has hardly been out of the news since April, when President Trump vowed to renovate it, and paint it ‘the American flag blue’ by July 4th. Despite the pool being cleaned, cleaned, coated and refilled, within a matter of days the algae that had been troubling for
Published June 26, 2026 12:03 pm There’s a subplot here to watch in the upcoming Tour de France. a company called From lab to fieldor FLF, emerged from secrecy earlier this month (As told by Jim Cotton For outside sister publication Velo) to reveal that it has developed a new energy gel that contains lactateof
How much do our genes determine about our lives, and can they influence traits like risk-taking, anti-social behavior or even violence? Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioral geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, who studies how genetic factors shape human behavior. In her book Original Sin
AFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt can tell you that AI is hard to sell these days. Last month, he tried to talk about the AI revolution during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona and was booed by students about to enter the AI-ridden job market. His restlessness was telling. Schmidt isn’t the only
Sea ice is melting rapidly and the climate crisis is deepening. But what if there was a way to condense it again? Madeleine Finlay is joined by Environment Editor Damien Carrington to discuss the bold effort to refreeze the Arctic which is showing early signs of success. They visited the project to find out how
TeaHere in hell there is a special place reserved for those doctors who trade their authority, status and medical training to make money out of public fear and gullibility. Every time I scroll past a qualified therapist promoting elixirs promising youthful vigor, cellulite-free thighs or a gut microbiome makeover, I want to puke their insidious
wWhen Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the Industrial Revolution and British colonialism were in full swing. Charles Dickens published Hard Times five years ago; Queen Victoria nominally ruled over one-fifth of the world’s population. Science writer Rowan Hooper writes, Darwin devised his evolutionary theory to present what he thought his
Britain’s Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has announced a social media ban for under-16s as part of an online safety campaign that aims to go further than a world-first ban imposed by Australia last year. Many parents have welcomed the proposals, but scientists have pointed to the lack of strong evidence for the effectiveness of the