The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

Rowan Hooper met ecologist Suzanne Simard under an oak tree in Kew Gardens, London, to talk about her new book, criticism of her work, and getting a call from James Cameron's people

Asteroid 2026JH2 has enough mass to wipe out a city and will zoom past Earth next week

Asteroid 2026JH2 has enough mass to wipe out a city and will zoom past Earth next week

After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to scrap our current view of the condition and start again

After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to scrap our current view of the condition and start again

Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their relationships with other hominins

Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their relationships with other hominins

Genetically altered bacteria can synthesise gadusol, a naturally occurring compound found in zebrafish eggs that could be developed as an alternative to existing sunscreen products that can harm marine life

Genetically altered bacteria can synthesise gadusol, a naturally occurring compound found in zebrafish eggs that could be developed as an alternative to existing sunscreen products that can harm marine life

Prime editing via RNA-LNP corrects multiple pathogenic ASS1 mutations and restores ureagenesis and survival in a mouse model of citrullinemia type I.

Somatosensory neurons prevent tendon degeneration by FGF1-mediated mesenchymal and macrophage regulation.

NeuroSense enables near real-time, multimodal monitoring of external ventricular drains in neurocritical care.

The urokinase receptor uPAR is highly expressed in recurrent glioblastoma and is targetable using anti-uPAR chimeric antigen receptor T cells.

Prime editing corrects a pathogenic human SCN1A mutation in mice, reducing seizure frequencies and improving survival in this GEFS+ model.

Through direct correction of a mutation causing Dravet syndrome, adenine base editing alleviates epileptic and premature mortality phenotypes in mice.

NKG2A checkpoint inhibition promotes lung fibrosis resolution.

Government departments and other public bodies in the UK must consider requests to release information about AI-produced content, regulators have confirmed. The move follows a successful request by New Scientist for the release of a minister's ChatGPT logs

Government departments and other public bodies in the UK must consider requests to release information about AI-produced content, regulators have confirmed. The move follows a successful request by New Scientist for the release of a minister's ChatGPT logs

We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are escalating, creating conflict between countries and stoking conspiracy theories. But do they work?