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The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch

Life

The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch

To mark David Attenborough turning 100, 51¶¯Âþ staff have been set a tricky task: pick your favourite of his many amazing documentaries...

Culture

Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

Culture

From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

Space

What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

Culture

Moises Arias

Comment

Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

Culture

Pierre Huyghe

Comment

51¶¯Âþ recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals

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GERMANY. 1990. Celebrating the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Mind

What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

Culture

Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

Space

A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

Culture

Directly above view of a chef chopping tomatoes

Society

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

Culture

Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing

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Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing

Culture

Physics

Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025

Cacio e pepe pasta and boiled eggs were the subjects of meticulous studies aiming to help cooks achieve perfection, but the reimagined recipes weren't always well-received

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Technology

The cassette tape made a comeback in 2025 thanks to a DNA upgrade

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Mathematics

Mathematicians unified key laws of physics in 2025

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Technology

The best and most ridiculous robots of 2025 in pictures

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Technology

Microsoft made a splash with a controversial quantum computer in 2025

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