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Physics

What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose

The Impossible Man by Patchen Barss salutes Roger Penrose's groundbreaking work in physics and mathematics while challenging the idea that a genius should be exempt from ordinary obligations

Culture

Pier 26 Sturgeons MONSTRUM Playgrounds

Life

51 recommends the Pier 26 Science Playground

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Rumours (2024) still

Society

In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

Culture

PJKM6Y Weisweiler power plant in Eschweiler, RWE Power AG, brown coal power plant and wind power plants, alternative energy, fossil energy, renewable energy, smoke cloud, Eschweiler, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Environment

Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

Culture

The best new science fiction books of November 2024

Comment

The best new science fiction books of November 2024

Culture

Film still from Orca - Black and White Gold.

Life

Tense docu-thriller exposes the cruelties of commercial whale trade

Culture

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51 recommends detective dramedy Ludwig

Culture

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Earth

Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids

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The Terror - An accident at sea cripples a Royal Navy expedition, forcing its captains to make a dire choice.

Humans

Chilling news adds fresh meaning to 2018 Arctic horror drama

Culture

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory in 1912, the year after she received here second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Physics

Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

Marie Curie redefined the role of women in science by training a generation of “lab daughters” to have stellar careers, shows Dava Sobel's detailed and intimate new biography, The Elements of Marie Curie

Culture

Life

51 recommends documentary Hunt for the Oldest DNA

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Technology

Musical AI harmonises with your voice in a transcendent new exhibition

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Environment

Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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Space

51 recommends Brian Cox's new series, Solar System

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