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10 February 2021
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

10 February 2021
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

23 September 2020
Netflix’s Hope Frozen documentary follows a family in Thailand that cryogenically freezes their 2-year-old daughter’s brain after she dies, creating a controversy-fuelled media storm

1 January 2020
Wondering what to read, watch and see this year? Here's our cracking cultural calendar of the most interesting non-fiction, films, games, events and sci-fi in 2020

10 September 2019
Thirty four years after The Handmaid’s Tale and a hit TV show later, Margaret Atwood’s intriguing sequel, The Testaments, highlights the power of narrative

17 July 2019
Why are squid eyes so big? What is Caesar's novel? Can Alexander von Humboldt go graphic? How do you talk to alien plants? Recharge with New Scientist’s picks

5 June 2019
When reality fractures, it takes the adventurous writing style of the novel XYZT to make it believable, says Helen Marshall in her latest column

24 May 2019
The trailer for the new season of Netflix's Black Mirror suggests the show will continue to capture our collective disquiet about technology – this time with a stellar new cast including Miley Cyrus and Andrew Scott

5 September 2018
The future is bright for our species, mostly because we kill everything in our path, says China's first winner of the Hugo science-fiction award

4 December 2017
From challenging stereotypes about slavery to the necessity of finding any kind of exit from a mundane life, escape dominates new sci-fi

29 November 2017
Frantic about how to please your loved ones this festive season? Take a deep breath and plunge into New Scientist's present picks