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Ancient Cave Art: “Internal Organs” in Lascaux, France Photo by Tipijan/Getty Images Animate By Michael Bond Pan Macmillan UK | Pegasus USA (August) Imagine capturing an…
Visitors at Kew Gardens in London are captivated by the peculiar aroma emanating from the greenhouses, as the Corpse Flower, scientifically known as Amorphophallus titanum, reaches…
David Attenborough on set in 1979 Life on Earth: The making of the series is explored in a new BBC documentary. BBC The nature documentary style…
David Attenborough and mountain gorilla on location in Rwanda Life on Earth John Sparks In celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday on May 8th, we cannot overlook…
What did the New Scientist Book Club think of Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson? I set an engaging challenge for the New Scientist Book Club…
Seoul – Sylvia Park Luminous Stage – Night Sean Pavone/Shutterstock This summer was unforgettable. July struck hard, with 62 recorded heatstroke fatalities in Seoul, compounded by…
A robot child goes missing in Sylvia Park’s “Luminous,” the New Scientist Book Club’s May selection. d3sign/Getty Images In 2024, a striking headline emerged: In a…
J. Craig Venter, a groundbreaking scientist renowned for his pivotal role in decoding the human genome and a trailblazer in modern genomics, passed away on Wednesday,…
Jeff Beal’s New Album Performance at Intercession Church in NYC Kana Hoshino During the premiere of New York Etudes Vol. II, I was unsure of what…
Try Samples at the Museum of Edible Earth Photo Credit: David Parry/PA Media Assignments Geophagy and Mental Health: Earth eating, or geophagy, is recognized by the…
The rich history of North America’s Indigenous peoples is often misrepresented through a European perspective. In her book, Indigenous People, historian Kathleen Duvall from the University…
Molly vs The Machines Stills Channel 4 In 2017, Molly Russell tragically passed away in her bedroom in Harrow, London. The thought-provoking film Molly vs The…
A pale cloud of water ice drapes over the Tharsis volcano on Mars NASA/JPL/MSSS Before humanity ventured to Mars, the planet was desolate. Yet, it underwent…
NASA’s Mars Rover ‘Perseverance’ NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/ASU/MSS S Thinking about the readers brings me joy. In Red Mars, the narrative unfolds in the current year,…
Cirque du Soleil Ovo Show Joseph Okpako/Getty Images Insects certainly deserve more acclaim, which is why I was thrilled to experience a circus performance focused on…
“Gentle yet unforgettable”: Under the Gaze of the Big Bird Many fictional narratives explore humanity’s struggle against extinction, predominantly painting a grim picture. However, In Front…
Artist Pierre Huyghe Photo by Ola Lindal A century ago, the advent of quantum mechanics left physicists gazing into the unknown. Long-held beliefs about reality were…
Spending Time Painting in Cornwall, UK Ashley Cooper/Alamy Russell hesitated at the door, unsure whether to enter or not. This wasn’t his usual environment; he only…
Currently, I am reading Big Oyster: The History of the Half Shell, a captivating account that chronicles New York City’s rich relationship with oysters through the…
Jessie Buckley as Agnes in Hamnet AGATA GRZYBOWSKA/2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC The film Hamnet, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel, poignantly highlights the profound connection between…
Ryoji Ikeda’s Data Cosmo [n°1] Photography: Alice Lubbock Thomas LutonFeatures Editor, London Since the mid-2000s, renowned electronic musician and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has been reimagining…
Peter Kyle’s Landmark Request for ChatGPT Logs Stuns Observers In early 2025, I sent an email that I never expected would set a legal precedent for…
New Year’s Eve will be celebrated in a virtual utopia as “Every Version of You” begins Akin Bostansi/Getty The sky this evening is utterly dismal, with…
The New Scientist Book Club took a departure from science fiction in October, focusing instead on the winners of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.…
New Scientist Book Club just read Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed Gollancz; Benjamin Brink/Oregonian/AP/Alamy Alex Foster’s reading experience, after shifting our perspectives in a…
New Scientist Book Club discusses Alex Foster’s Circular Motion The New Scientist Book Club has taken a turn by revisiting Alex Foster’s Circular Motion, moving from…
New Scientist Book Club has just read Adam Roberts’ Lake in the Dark Laurie photos Following the journey through Khalian Bradley’s *Time Saving*, the New Scientist…
Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time awarded mixed reviews at the New Scientist Book Club One of the wonderful elements of science fiction is its vastness,…
Yurok Tribal member and biologist working with engineers to set up a fish trap on a tributary of the Klamath River in California Vivian Wan The…
An unusual look hero Arami Stock Photo Hero Ideas Dengue fever boy Mosquitoes would have appeared in 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when…
If you can move your ears in small pieces, you can use the muscles of the anoperia. These muscles helped to change the shape of the…
Gillian Anderson (left) and David Duchovny as Agents Scully and Mulder in The X-Files AJ Photo/Alamy Television hasn’t always been kind to science fiction, with smaller…
Kashmir Funk in the Laboratory, 1954Associated Press/Alamy Casimir Funk, the Polish biochemist who coined the term “vitamin” to describe a group of important molecules that help…