Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025 | New Scientist
A smooth cacio e pepe pasta sauce can be hard to achieve Brent Hofacker/Alamy
Scientists’ new recipes for a classic pasta dish and boiled eggs were among the most talked-about science stories of 2025, provoking delight and fury in equal measure.
A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025 | New Scientist
The multiverse was proposed as a way to make sense of bizarre quantum behaviour VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
A physics experiment published this year that claimed to measure a single photon in two places at once – and, in the process, discredit the idea of a multiverse – drew pushback from many sceptical physicists, but the scientists behind the demonstration stand by their claim.
Inside world's ultimate X-ray machine before it becomes more powerful | New Scientist
An illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC’s LCLS-II X-ray laser
Physicists used 'dark photons' in an effort to rewrite physics in 2025 | New Scientist
Dark photons offer a new explanation for the double-slit experiment RUSSELL KIGHTLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
A core tenet of quantum theory was imperilled this year when a team of researchers put forward a radical new interpretation of an experiment about the nature of light.
The 8 Best Airbnb Experiences in Tokyo
Tokyo is one of those cities that feels endlessly deep. You can visit a dozen times and still discover new food stalls, hidden shrines, late-night bars, quirky subcultures, and neighborhoods that feel like completely different worlds. (I know because I’ve visited about 10 times already!)
The 10 most popular TED-Ed Animations of 2025
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In 2025, our YouTube audience spent nearly 16 million hours watching TED-Ed Animations (that’s equal to over 1,800 years!). Our most-viewed videos of 2025 include an exploration of dragon legends from around the world, tips on how to best build new skills, an explanation of why it’s a really bad idea to mess with a crow, a handful to help you understand your body, and more!
Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer | New Scientist
Quantum particles can now be made to carry useful information for longer koto_feja/Getty Images
The odd phenomenon of quantum superposition has helped researchers break a fundamental quantum mechanical limit – and given quantum objects properties that make them useful for quantum computing for longer periods of time.
How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature | New Scientist
There is a long history of doing physics by imagination. Albert Einstein built his special theory of relativity after imagining himself chasing a beam of light. Erwin Schrödinger gave us a cat that was both alive and dead. The German mathematician David Hilbert demonstrated the counterintuitiveness of infinity by imagining a hotel with an infinite number of rooms and guests. By taking creative liberties, physicists use thought experiments to stress-test ideas and so better understand them.
Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits | New Scientist
Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us | New Scientist
Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch of déjà vu, he thinks. But no, his companions insist: he is living inside a computer program and he has just witnessed a glitch.