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Is this new Lego model a nod to the terrifying idea of mirror life?

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Is this new Lego model a nod to the terrifying idea of mirror life?

Feedback, a Lego fan, delves into a new science-related set, and learns that the model of a DNA double helix is the wrong way around. Time for some jokes about mirror organisms...

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Is this the most glorious retraction notice a journal has ever made?

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Is this the most glorious retraction notice a journal has ever made?

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THE OA Brit Marling Season 1 Episode 6

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Rediscover The OA, a TV show with echoes of late director David Lynch

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New Scientists want to poke me where, with a what?

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51��s want to poke me where, with a what?

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

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Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

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New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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51�� Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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How a theory about maleness could explain the state of the world

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How a theory about maleness could explain the state of the world

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Jack the Ripper and the case of the missing DNA evidence

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Jack the Ripper and the case of the missing DNA evidence

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'

Science fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky on the science that inspires his novels, his distaste for "humanocentric" narratives and just how he is able to write so much

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Virgin Money flusters chatbot, but just try living in Scunthorpe

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George R. R. Martin finally finishes… a physics paper

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51�� recommends Lost Gardens of London

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The best new science fiction books of February 2025

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