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The neoliberal think tank that wants to sell the moon

23 February 2022

Space invaders, puzzling Olympic scoring systems and carbon footprints measured out in worms in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up

Science needs to address its imagination problem - lives depend on it

23 February 2022

Almost 200 people died in the German floods of 2021 because experts couldn’t convince them of impending danger. We must rethink how to get through to the public, says hydrologist Hannah Cloke

Severance review: A compelling thriller about dividing work and play

23 February 2022

Switching your brain off work mode at 5pm might sound appealing, but as this thriller on Apple TV+ demonstrates, it could be a very bad idea

The shipping container holding the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T) is unloaded from a United States Air Force C-5 cargo plane following its arrival at the Launch and Landing Facility runway at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 10, 2021. Teams then transported the satellite to an Astrotech Space Operations facility in nearby Titusville for prelaunch processing. A collaboration between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, GOES-T is scheduled to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on March 1, 2022. The launch is being managed by NASA?s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy, America?s multi-user spaceport.

Don't miss: The live launch of NASA's latest environmental satellite

23 February 2022

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

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Dual review: The dark side of cloning played straight for laughs

23 February 2022

Riley Stearns's dark comedy about a death match between clones has an appealing premise, but it doesn't quite hit the mark

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The Man Who Tasted Words review: Inside the odd world of human senses

23 February 2022

A new book by neurologist Guy Leschziner looks at the astonishing ways some people’s brains interpret the world, offering insight into how we all experience reality

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We have lost 90 per cent of the original copies of Medieval literature

17 February 2022

A statistical tool borrowed from ecology suggests that there were originally 40,600 copies of stories about King Arthur and other western European heroes – but only 3648 survive