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Environment

The Earth Transformed review: The untold history of humans and climate

Teasing apart the connection between humans and climate is the business of an ambitious book by Peter Frankopan, which is heavy on resources but light on insights

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Humans

Animalia review: Intriguing sci-fi thriller, shame about the aliens

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INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 28: A 4,853-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine tree known as Methuselah is growing high at Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California, United States on November 28, 2021. It is also recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Life

Elderflora review: A history of ancient trees is excellent in parts

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A scene from NEXT EXIT, a Magnet release. Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.

Humans

Next Exit film review: New tale of the afterlife takes a wrong turn

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TOPSHOT - A woman walks on a bridge during the fires in Renaico, Araucania region, Chile on February 4, 2023. - At least 23 people have died in hundreds of forest fires whipped up amid a blistering heat wave in south central Chile, a senior government official said Saturday night. (Photo by JAVIER TORRES / AFP) (Photo by JAVIER TORRES/AFP via Getty Images)

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Don’t Miss: Explore wildfire’s power at Science Gallery London

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Conceptual artwork, Nature hope life happiness spiritual and freedom concept , surreal landscape of Woman river, painting art, imagination illustration

Mind

Travellers to Unimaginable Lands review: The true toll of dementia

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Episode 3. Alison Pill in "Hello Tomorrow!," premiering February 17, 2023 on Apple TV+.

Humans

Hello Tomorrow! review: Selling holiday homes on the moon

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Physics

Quantum Bullsh*t review: Time to save quantum theory for science

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Cady Coleman appears in The Longest Goodbye by Ido Mizrahy, an official selection of the World Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. | Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by the press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

Space

The Longest Goodbye review: A poignant documentary on space psychology

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) ??? a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration ??? was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black hole???s boundary ??? the event horizon from which the EHT takes its name ??? is around 2.5 times smaller than the shadow it casts and measures just under 40 billion km across. While this may sound large, this ring is only about 40 microarcseconds across ??? equivalent to measuring the length of a credit card on the surface of the Moon. Although the telescopes making up the EHT are not physically connected, they are able to synchronize their recorded data with atomic clocks ??? hydrogen masers ??? which precisely time their observations. These observations were collected at a wavelength of 1.3 mm during a 2017 global campaign. Each telescope of the EHT produced enormous amounts of data ??? roughly 350 terabytes per day ??? which was stored on high-performance helium-filled hard drives. These data were flown to highly specialised supercomputers ??? known as correlators ??? at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and MIT Haystack Observatory to be combined. They were then painstakingly converted into an image using novel computational tools developed by the collaboration.

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Don鈥檛 Miss: Learning about how the first black hole image was taken

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Health

The Complete Guide to Memory review: How we remember and how we forget

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Space

The First City on Mars review: How to make life on Mars a reality

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Humans

Don’t Miss: Marvel’s Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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Marvel’s Midnight Suns review: Meet your heroes in new strategy game

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