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30 January 2019

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Armchair adventurers will learn a lot from John Logsdon’s The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the incredible story of human spaceflight. But if hiding under the sofa is more your style, try Cosmic Impact: Understanding the threat to Earth from asteroids and comets by Andrew May.

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From woodcuts to MRI scans, images of human anatomy are on show in Under the Skin: Illustrating the human body. At the Royal College of Physicians, London, from 1 February.

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Alita: Battle Angel (pictured) is a cyberpunk coming-of-age story based on Yukito Kishiro’s manga. Released…

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