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Don’t Miss: Innervate, an EP reflecting on epilepsy by Liza Bec

Don’t Miss: Innervate, an EP reflecting on epilepsy by Liza Bec

1 February 2023

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Don't Miss: In Plain Sight, an exhibition about visual perception

12 October 2022

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


Don’t Miss: Capitalism vs environmentalism at London’s Science Museum

Don’t Miss: Capitalism vs environmentalism at London’s Science Museum

17 February 2021

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


Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

22 January 2020

This week, watch architecture make music, remember the Yanomami and measure your superiority to machines


Don't miss: Armstrong, the science of music and codebreaking

Don't miss: Armstrong, the science of music and codebreaking

3 July 2019

This week, check out the latest film on the moon landings, try some physics karaoke and visit the Science Museum’s display on codebreaking down the ages


Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

23 May 2019

Carl Guyenette has turned musician Jeff Wayne's 70’s concept album into two hours of immersive terror – by putting all the tech at the service of the story


Ever ran screaming from a concert? Keaton Henson has a treat in store

Ever ran screaming from a concert? Keaton Henson has a treat in store

16 July 2018

Aided by the performance artist Brendan Walker, the folk-rock musician is giving concert-goers at London's Barbican Hall a taste of the anxiety disorder that keeps him off the stage.


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Enjoy a season of science with our 2018 UK festival picks

1 June 2018

Stumble into surprises all over the UK, from the physics of gin at WOMAD, to mind-reading at Green Man, to time deconstructed at New Scientist Live


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Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell explores Bach's cosmic music

16 March 2018

A London concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment this Sunday says as much about J. S. Bach’s original audience as it does about today’s cosmology


Music and art stop dementia from stealing everything we cherish

Music and art stop dementia from stealing everything we cherish

4 January 2018

Dementia may not rob us of everything we cherish – a Wellcome project and a community choir have some great news about the role of art and music


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