Is the future of education outside universities? 12. November 2025 (19:00) New technologies and academic funding cuts are upending the ways we learn today. Newly enrolled student Annalee Newitz finds some silver linings(New Scientist)
Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism 12. November 2025 (19:00) Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying out the evidence against it, says Elle Hunt(New Scientist)
Breaking Bad showrunner uses sci-fi for smart dive into happiness 12. November 2025 (19:00) Vince Gilligan, the showrunner behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is back, this time using sci-fi to explore a deceptively rich premise about the pursuit of happiness and the notion of utopia, finds Bethan Ackerley(New Scientist)
Finally wrangling with the complexity of female bodies benefits us all 12. November 2025 (19:00) Medical research has long sought to gloss over the hormonal and chromosomal complications typical of female biology. But embracing this complexity could benefit everyone(New Scientist)
Sex could help wounds heal faster by reducing stress 12. November 2025 (18:17) Mild wounds healed faster if people took a spray containing the "love hormone" oxytocin and set aside time to praise their partner – but they cleared up even quicker if these individuals were also intimate with their other half(New Scientist)
Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away 12. November 2025 (17:00) A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions about how such events could impact exoplanet habitability(New Scientist)
Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you 12. November 2025 (17:00) When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, who invented the scale, tells New Scientist about his 50-year career in planetary defence(New Scientist)
