The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020
1 January 2020
Wondering what to read, watch and see this year? Here's our cracking cultural calendar of the most interesting non-fiction, films, games, events and sci-fi in 2020
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For the love of dog: How our canine companions evolved for affection
1 January 2020
It's not just the food, your dog really does love you - and researcher Clive Wynne has done the studies to prove it
Did an asteroid impact 65 million years ago really kill the dinosaurs?
1 January 2020
The idea that a falling asteroid caused the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs surfaced 40 years ago. At the time, our reaction was rather sceptical
Why dogs could hold the secret to longer, healthier human lives
1 January 2020
Our best shot at understanding and even reversing human ageing will come not from studying ourselves, but from 10,000 of our canine companions
Four great waves of animals have spread out from the tropics
29 December 2019
The tropics are the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Now there is evidence that they are also the main source of evolutionary innovation and diversity
Conservationists are ignoring climate change, risking mass extinctions
27 December 2019
Efforts to save many endangered animals from extinction are doomed to fail as conservationists are not taking climate change into account
Weird jaguar catfish is covered in spines and lives in wooden logs
21 December 2019
A newly described catfish, found in Brazil and Peru, is covered in spines, lives in a log, has spots like a jaguar and has serrated fins
