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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024's best documentaries to date

Enjoy the year's top documentaries so far, including David Attenborough on the rise of the mammals and a profile of Victor Glover, soon to be the first Black astronaut to orbit the moon

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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Sarah Perry's Enlightenment is a moving story of love and astronomy

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Illustration of life forms on a hypothetical planet with a slightly lower mass than the Earth. It has shallow seas and extreme tides due to its large moon (thin crescent at left). The vegetation is translucent which allows the light to shine through, so it seems to be glowing, due to it being backlit in this image.

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

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Eastern Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) hatching from egg. Captive, occurs in South East Europe.

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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution

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Artwork for the BBC's podcast Child presented by India Rakusen

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New Scientist recommends Child, a podcast on our first stages of life

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Episode 3. Joel Edgerton in "Dark Matter," premiering 08 May 2024 on Apple TV+.

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Joel Edgerton must escape the multiverse in a gripping sci-fi series

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The "science of weird shit" and making sense of the paranormal

Chris French, who runs the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, explores what lies behind claims of ghosts, aliens and reincarnation in his new book

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New Scientist recommends a play about women in a birth control trial

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Johann Hari's compelling but flawed look at the new weight-loss drugs

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The best new science fiction books of May 2024

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The best new science fiction books of May 2024

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Quvenzhane Wallise in Breathe

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This one-room sci-fi thriller should take its MacGuffin more seriously

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