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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

Ryan Gosling stars in the latest adaptation of an Andy Weir novel, another tale of a lone genius battling to survive in space. Bethan Ackerley thoroughly approves

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Pierre Huyghe

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New Scientist recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals

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Moises Arias

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Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

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From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

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What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

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GERMANY. 1990. Celebrating the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

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What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

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Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

Space

A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

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Directly above view of a chef chopping tomatoes

Society

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

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Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing

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Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing

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Physics

Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025

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Technology

The cassette tape made a comeback in 2025 thanks to a DNA upgrade

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the market within five years

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Mathematics

Mathematicians unified key laws of physics in 2025

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Technology

The best and most ridiculous robots of 2025 in pictures

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Microsoft made a splash with a controversial quantum computer in 2025

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Environment

2025's best photos of the natural world, from volcanoes to icebergs

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