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New Scientist recommends Mat Collishaw's Petrichor show in London

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

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The Centrifugal Soul (detail 1), 2016, Photo Peter Mallet

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Hunt for the Shadow Wolf review: Can Britain learn to love the wolf?

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H8AYEJ Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) pack in the snow, Norway

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In Frank Herbert’s Dune, fungi are hidden in plain sight

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New Scientist recommends the Never Post podcast

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New Scientist recommends the Never Post podcast

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DE0GFY Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) on a palm frond

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The Tomb of the Mili Mongga review: Hunting for giants in Indonesia

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An animation of the primitive Earth in the process of formation, more than four billion years ago. We view the newborn world from its troubled surface a sea of lava dotted with volcanoes spewing more lava, ash and smoke into the atmosphere. Meteorites fall frequently, illuminating the black, lifeless, surface rocks. And in the sky, the Moon -- much closer to us then than it is now -- endures a similar bombardment.

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The Story of Earth's Climate review: 25 discoveries tell tangled tale

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The best new science fiction books of March 2024

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The best new science fiction books of March 2024

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Bad therapy review: Is mental health industry fuelling youth crisis?

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New Scientist recommends London's When Forms Come Alive exhibition

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New Scientist recommends London's When Forms Come Alive exhibition

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THE ARC OF OBLIVION Werner_and_Rex

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The Arc of Oblivion review: Offbeat film about preserving our world

Film-maker Ian Cheney built an ark on his parents' land in Maine as a visual metaphor to help him explore the hubris of keeping anything from our modern world – and why we would think even our fragile digital world could last

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A close-up view of a burial trench between rows of individual graves, excavated between the concrete foundations of the Royal Mint, from the excavation of the Black Death cemetery, East Smithfield, London, view looking west. (Photo by MOLA/Getty Images)

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Crypt review: Alice Roberts on murder and mayhem in the Middle Ages

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Dune Part Two review: Thrills sure, but not weird enough to be good

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Dune Part Two review: Thrills sure, but not weird enough to be good

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

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Read an extract from In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

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Read an extract from In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

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