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Apollo 10½: A smart animation about growing up during the space age

Apollo 10½: A smart animation about growing up during the space age

13 April 2022

Richard Linklater's latest film follows a young boy's fantasies about travelling to space, using beautiful rotoscoped animation to tell his story, says Simon Ings


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Sci-fi is starting to exploit the infectious horrors of memes

6 April 2022

A new micro-genre of science fiction explores how mind control is at the very heart of our networked existence


#111: Antarctic and Arctic record-breaking heat; octopus brains insight; black hole paradox explained

24 March 2022

Extreme weather events have been recorded at both of Earth’s polar regions, as the Arctic and Antarctic are hit by major heat waves. To put this into context, Rowan speaks with climate scientist and Hot Air author Peter Stott.How did octopuses get to...


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If energy cannot be created or destroyed, where does it come from?

9 March 2022

No energy needed to be created when the universe came into existence for some very counter-intuitive reasons, say our readers


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The Cartographers review: A perceptive sci-fi love letter to maps

9 March 2022

In The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd’s latest work of magical realist speculative fiction, the characters have a habit of asking “what makes a map?”. The answer, it becomes clear, is its purpose, finds Sally Adee


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Web3 is an empty buzzword – but beware, it can still hurt you

2 March 2022

There's plenty of excitement about a new, decentralised version of the internet. It is largely still a fantasy, but scammers are using it to lure in unsuspecting victims, writes Annalee Newitz


Don't Miss: New Scientist Live, the greatest science show on Earth

Don't Miss: New Scientist Live, the greatest science show on Earth

2 March 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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Bigbug review: A sci-fi comedy about a sexy kind of singularity

2 March 2022

The new slapstick sci-fi offering by French directorial royalty Jean-Pierre Jeunet is plagued by predictable innuendo


Severance review: A compelling thriller about dividing work and play

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


Petrov’s flu review: A surreal journey through one man’s delirium

Petrov’s flu review: A surreal journey through one man’s delirium

16 February 2022

Kirill Serebrennikov’s mischievous film about a fever-stricken comic book artist is an ode to Russian sci-fi and absurdist literature, finds Simon Ings


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