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The Forest Cathedral review: Can Silent Spring work as a game?

5 April 2023

Turning a legendary environmental non-fiction book into a video game is an ambitious project. It opens as a ladybird dies in a fog of DDT, but goes downhill after that, finds Jacob Aron
Dusty Beginnings of a Star This artist's rendering gives us a glimpse into a cosmic nursery as a star is born from the dark, swirling dust and gas of this cloud. Stars form when dark dust from the cloud begins to clump together under the influence of its own gravity. The infalling material forms a disk as it spirals inward, which feeds material onto the forming star at its center. Jets of material that shoot from the inner disk and protostar herald its birth. Planets form out of the remnants of the disk of material that surrounds the infant star. This leads to a question that has long perplexed astronomers about the nature of brown dwarfs, objects that fall between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass.

Don't Miss: A Supernova science talk by astrophysicist Thomas Haworth

5 April 2023

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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Alien Worlds review: Celebrating Earth's insects – as they disappear

5 April 2023

From diving ants to jewel beetles, there are millions of insect species on Earth. A wonderful new guide from entomologist Steve Nicholls celebrates some of the smallest lives and details the strain they are under
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 17: A statue of J. Marion Sims, a surgeon celebrated by many as the father of modern gynecology, is driven away in a Parks Department truck after being taken down from its pedestal at Central Park and East 103rd Street on April 17, 2018 in New York City. A New York City panel decided to move the controversial statue after groups demanded its removal as many of Sims medical breakthroughs came from experimenting on black slaves without anesthesia. The statue will be relocated in Green-Wood Cemetery in Windsor Terrace, where Sims is buried. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Divided review: Why we must eliminate racism from Western healthcare

5 April 2023

A legacy of racism in Western medicine means healthcare is badly in need of decolonising. Annabel Sowemimo's book sets out why

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