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El Eternauta. Ricardo Dar??n as Juan Salvo in El Eternauta. Cr. Mariano Landet / Netflix ??2025

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This stunning post-apocalyptic drama is the one you should be watching

There are hundreds of TV apocalypses to choose from, but The Eternaut, a fresh and compelling adaptation of a classic Argentinian comic book series, is the one to pick, says Bethan Ackerley

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WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

Physics

Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

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Block of flats Description Block of flats during night time with many figures in the windows and symmetrical staircase on both sides lit in green

Society

A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

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A sunflower (flos slois major) Basilius Besler, Hortus Eystettensis. Altdorf, 1613. Courtesy British Library

Life

51�� recommends the British Library’s Unearthed exhibition

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2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

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Astronaut Sally Ride, mission specialist on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the Flight Deck. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. (Credit: NASA)

Space

Life of first US woman in space Sally Ride makes a moving documentary

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Tutankhamun London: The Immersive Experience Pres Images

Humans

51�� recommends Tutankhamun: The immersive exhibition

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1.5 Degrees Celsius is the magical border - after that, there's no going back. Fridays For Future, 20.09.2019 in Bonn, Germany

Mathematics

Why exploring "equality" in a new maths book may help the real world

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Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

Physics

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

Culture

Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the 51�� Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic Ringworld by Larry Niven

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Life

From Chelsea to the British Library, garden shows are blooming

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Technology

How the new Murderbot TV series made me a reluctant convert

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Earth

A rich new history of our obsession with extracting Earth's resources

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Earth

51�� recommends map exhibition From Streets to the Stars

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