Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts' 18. February 2026 (19:00) Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley about what the technology is doing to us – for better and for worse(New Scientist)
Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains 18. February 2026 (19:00) Fungi have become Hollywood’s go-to bad guys. But as yet another story focuses on Cordyceps, Nick Crumpton says we are missing a chance to broaden our fictional horizons(New Scientist)
Why it's high time we stopped anthropomorphising ants 18. February 2026 (19:00) We have long drawn parallels between ants and humans. Now we are comparing the insects to computers. It is time to stop using ants as analogues for ourselves and our machines, says Annalee Newitz(New Scientist)
Artists gaze into space in stunning new exhibition 18. February 2026 (19:00) A new show at the Royal West of England Academy brings together a series of works that interweave art and science(New Scientist)
What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths 18. February 2026 (19:00) In the ChatGPT era, a war over the nature of intelligence is playing out. Chris Stokel-Walker explores a Princeton professor's engaging take(New Scientist)
Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years 18. February 2026 (17:00) Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with data(New Scientist)
