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Viewfinder review: Perspective is all in a unique first-person puzzler

In the climate-ravaged world set up by the puzzle game Viewfinder, you must go deep to find abandoned research that could save Earth. Success depends on cunning tricks with dimensions, says Jacob Aron

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Painting showing Gregor Mendel, Austrian scientist who experimented with garden peas to establish the principle of heredity.

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Disputed Inheritance review: Why do we still bother with Mendel?

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2A33GCB free diver swimming with female sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, Dominica, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, photo taken under permit n?RP 17/01/02

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Whalefall review: Stunning novel about being swallowed by a whale

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The best science fiction movies about dinosaurs, by a palaeontologist

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The best science fiction movies about dinosaurs, by a palaeontologist

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Lauren Beukes on why she tackled the multiverse in sci-fi novel Bridge

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Lauren Beukes on why she tackled the multiverse in sci-fi novel Bridge

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Read an extract from Bridge by Lauren Beukes

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Read an extract from Bridge by Lauren Beukes

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4th July 2024 The Alnwick Garden, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK. Image shows gardeners Amy Thorp and Joe Savage unveiling the Gympie Gympie plant in the Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden. The boundaries of the Poison Garden are kept behind black iron gates, only open on guided tours. A combination of dark, ivy-covered tunnels and flame-shaped beds creates an educational garden full of interest and intrigue, where the most dangerous plants are kept within giant cages. Visitors can learn about the poisonous plants but are strictly prohibited from touching them. Info from press release The most venomous of all plants arrives at Alnwick???s Poison Garden The Alnwick Garden???s award-winning Poison Garden is unveiling a stinger of a new addition this week with its home grown native Australian plant, Gympie Gympie. Also known as the ???Australian stinging tree???, the nettle-like shrub is known as the world???s most venomous plant and is said to be capable of delivering a sting similarly to being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. The plant is the latest to grow in the small but deadly Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden which hosts around 100 toxic, intoxicating and narcotic plants including Laburnum, Atropa, Belladonna, Opium Poppy and Marijuana. Picture Phil Wilkinson / The Alnwick Garden

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New Scientist recommends: The Poison Garden near Alnwick Castle

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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - JULY 31: Jarren Duran #16 of the Boston Red Sox hits a single during the fifth inning against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on July 31, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)

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Game of Edges review: Inside story of how data is transforming sport

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Illustration of a human embryo at the blastocyst stage approximately 5 to 9 days after fertilisation. The outer trophoblast layer (green) will implant into the wall of the uterus (endometrium) and go on to form the placenta. The inner fluid-filled cavity of the blastocyst is called the blastocoele. The inner cell mass (embryoblast, orange) will form the embryo.

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From One Cell review: Embryology and the future of medicine

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Bridge review: An essential entrant into the multiverse genre

Lauren Beukes's new science fiction novel, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, demonstrates the one crucial flaw in the entire multiverse fantasy: human nature

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King Coal review: Moving documentary shows bequest of a dying industry

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How Oppenheimer addresses the paranoia around nuclear power

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Alone review: Insightful bestseller explores long-term singlehood

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New Scientist recommends: The Left Hand of Darkness and The Big Sleep

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