A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole 29. October 2025 (21:03) One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending assumptions that it was dominated by dark matter(New Scientist)
Cats revealed in all their glory in stunning new photographs 29. October 2025 (19:00) Photographer Tim Flach's new book Feline explores the mysterious and irresistible world of cats, from the domesticated to the wild, and why we love them(New Scientist)
Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness 29. October 2025 (19:00) Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form of the objective? Nikolay Kukushkin's One Hand Clapping is a bold voyage around the mysteries of the human mind, finds Thomas Lewton(New Scientist)
Minecraft fan may be most committed hobbyist out there 29. October 2025 (19:00) Feedback comes across a YouTuber's efforts to build a large language model in Minecraft and is impressed at the scale of it – even if it doesn't quite live up to its promise to blow your mind "in spectacular fashion"(New Scientist)
Tough choices lie ahead when it comes to climate change adaptation 29. October 2025 (19:00) COP's negotiations this month will focus on money for climate change adaptation. While more money is essential, even a big increase won't be enough on its own and we need to face up to this, warns Susannah Fisher(New Scientist)
The end of US support for the CMB-S4 telescope is devastating 29. October 2025 (19:00) The US government's decision to stop supporting a telescope facility that would have given us unprecedented insight into the early universe is calamitous, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein(New Scientist)
Owning our own data is the only way to stop enshittifcation 29. October 2025 (19:00) The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt(New Scientist)
Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores 29. October 2025 (19:00) Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes(New Scientist)
