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Mark Rylance play: Who was Dr Semmelweis and what did he discover?

New Scientist talks to actor Mark Rylance, writer Stephen Brown and director Tom Morris about their new play Dr Semmelweis, which spotlights the work of this maverick 19th-century obstetrician

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Love + Science review: Reflecting on the rise of HIV

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Love + Science review: Reflecting on the rise of HIV

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You’re Safe Til 2024: Deep History is about humanity's turning points

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You’re Safe Til 2024: Deep History is about humanity's turning points

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chimpanzee puppet

Don't Miss: Craft power, killer brain cells and fostered chimps

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Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

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Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

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coloured furniture

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Don't Miss: The art of colour and the science of persuasion

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Don't miss: Rebuilding the past, Xmas orbiting the moon and AI art

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Deconstructing Patterns exhibition

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Don’t miss: tiny patterns, a transgender scientist and a Mars meeting

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puppeteers

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The Wider Earth review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play

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Actors Nadi Kemp-Sayfi and Sam Redway

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War With the Newts review – this is smart sci-fi theatre at its best

A reimagining of a classic 1930s novel by Karel Capek cleverly immerses us in a terrifying future where a new intelligent species is cruelly exploited

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Humans

You’ve just crossed over… The Twilight Zone takes to the stage

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Technology

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for

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Humans

Mosquitoes: Staring into the heat death of the universe

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Space

Brecht’s Life of Galileo pumped up for the 21st century

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