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26 October 2022
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss

26 October 2022
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss

4 August 2021
How to Mars by David Ebenbach is an amusing novel about a failed attempt at reality TV on Mars. It is a new twist on the genre, says Clare Wilson

14 July 2021
To become an interplanetary species, we may have to genetically engineer ourselves to be more resilient, says geneticist Chris Mason. He has a 500-year plan for life away from Earth

23 September 2020
With wildfires raging, the outlook looks bleak from San Francisco. Thinking about the future in terms of “hope horizons” can help, writes Annalee Newitz

20 November 2017
Critics fear provoking hostile extraterrestrials by beaming messages to our closest exoplanets but there's no need to worry, says METI president Douglas Vakoch

10 May 2017
Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results