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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

The best new science fiction books of March 2025

3 March 2025

John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether it’s time travel or a moon made of cheese that takes your fancy, there’s some sci-fi here for you


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An entertaining history of gases shows science at work in daily life

17 July 2024

From laughing gas and whipped cream to compressed air and bicycles, Mark Miodownik's new book It’s a Gas lives up to its title by revealing just how much science is woven into the everyday


Why do teenagers take such risks? A new book has some answers

Why do teenagers take such risks? A new book has some answers

10 July 2024

An eye-opening new book by psychologist Lucy Foulkes lifts the lid on the surprisingly rational strategies behind the risky behaviours of adolescence, finds Catherine de Lange


Television Programme: The Leftovers with Justin Theroux as Kevin Garvey and Carrie Coon as Nora Durst. TL_202_042915_VR_-37.jpg The Leftovers Series 2

It's a decade old, but The Leftovers is still painfully resonant today

12 June 2024

The Leftovers follows those left behind after 140 million people vanish, unaccountably, in The Departure. The parallels with the covid-19 pandemic are obvious in this jewel of a TV show, says Bethan Ackerley


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Documentary explores a geneticist's motivation to understand the past

12 June 2024

Hunt for the Oldest DNA, the story of Eske Willerslev, a Danish evolutionary geneticist reconstructing ecosystems from ancient DNA, is as compelling as his scientific discoveries


Exhibition view, THE END OF AGING - by Michael Schindhelm, ?Surgery Room?, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, 2024

Immersive new exhibition explores the pitfalls of defying old age

12 June 2024

Michael Schindhelm's exhibition explores the possibilities and perils of living healthily for centuries – or at least much longer than today


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

8 May 2024

This beautifully written and compassionate novel tells the story of how comet Halle-Bopp turns a small-town writer onto astronomy and opens him up to fresh adventures


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·ï»Ë²ÊƱ recommends: Naomi Alderman's The Future and Doctor Who

10 January 2024

The books, TV, games and more that ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ staff have enjoyed this week


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·ï»Ë²ÊƱ recommends The Man Who Couldn't Stop and The Retrievals

6 September 2023

The books, TV, games and more that ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ staff have enjoyed this week


·ï»Ë²ÊƱ recommends: Pod and Women on Nature

·ï»Ë²ÊƱ recommends: Pod and Women on Nature

12 July 2023

The books, TV, games and more that ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ staff have enjoyed this week


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