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Gus (Christian Convery) in Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth Review: An eccentric mix of sci-fi and fantasy

1 June 2021

Netflix’s Sweet Tooth is a hopeful take on coping with the fall-out of a deadly pandemic, set in a world featuring human-animal hybrids


Tula (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) with Cady (Eleanor Tomlinson, left) and Genevieve (Diany Samba-Bandza, right) in Intergalactic

Intergalactic review: A promising prison-break drama set in 2143

21 April 2021

Intergalactic, a new show on Sky and streaming service NOW, follows a group who commandeer a spaceship to avoid prison. It's packed with plot and has the potential to be an exciting series


My Octopus Teacher

The 21 best science documentaries you should watch right now

25 February 2021

My Octopus Teacher, Feels Good Man, Spaceship Earth, and Icarus are all great science documentaries available to stream at the moment


Don't miss: A Nobel prizewinner's inside story of modern physics

Don't miss: A Nobel prizewinner's inside story of modern physics

10 June 2020

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


Steve Carell plays General Naird, chief of the fictional Space Force

Space Force review: The sitcom is almost as comical as the real thing

26 May 2020

The newly created US Space Force has provided a lot of laughs since its inception. A TV satire about it is almost as funny as the original, says Simon Ings


Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman: 'A story will help us make sense of anything'

11 May 2020

In His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman touches on difficult philosophical and scientific questions about our existence. We spoke to him about science, daemons and dust


Rick and Morty

Don't Miss: Rick & Morty are returning to Netflix

29 April 2020

Ricky & Morty are back on Netflix, a new online exhibition shows art in the making and book A Life Without End sees a writer attempt to avoid death


Westworld

The best science fiction TV shows to stream right now

3 April 2020

From Chernobyl to Watchmen, this is the best sci-fi on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and BBC iPlayer at the moment


Two characters in Tales from the Loop

Tales From The Loop review: Beautiful and sedate sci-fi escapism

27 March 2020

Inspired by a series of artworks, Tales From The Loop is an Amazon series about the strange goings-on in a town set atop an experimental physics research facility


Westworld

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

9 March 2020

Westworld is soon to return with season three. Four episodes in to the impossibly glamorous, highly urbanised future, I can't wait to find out what's going on, writes Emily Wilson


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