Stunningly intimate octopus image wins aquatic photography prize 09. July 2025 (20:00) Kat Zhou has won the Aquatic Life category in the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, while a shot of a death-defying leap by a lemur took the top prize(New Scientist)
Is this the raciest conference invite ever? 09. July 2025 (20:00) Feedback has been invited to an event next year in Shaoxing, China. It's an academic conference promising "revolutionary thinkers who are redefining human intimacy through cutting-edge robotics and AI"(New Scientist)
Plans to genetically screen newborns for rare diseases are problematic 09. July 2025 (20:00) The UK's health secretary has announced a 10-year plan to check newborns for a huge range of rare conditions. There are major medical and ethical issues with this, argues neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan(New Scientist)
The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it? 09. July 2025 (20:00) The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains(New Scientist)
Foundation's new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat 09. July 2025 (20:00) Foundation's new series is full of new characters and dramatic potential. But instead of mining those rich seams, too many plotlines have become shallow and absurd. It's hard to see a good show go bad, says Bethan Ackerley(New Scientist)
Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms may be less common than we thought 09. July 2025 (18:32) Previous estimates have suggested that more than half of people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms, but now a review of the evidence suggests this isn't the case, at least for short-term use.(New Scientist)
