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New Scientist recommends Tutankhamun: The immersive exhibition

4 June 2025

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

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)

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

4 June 2025

A new documentary sheds light on the extraordinary story of the US's first woman astronaut, Sally Ride, who defied all expectations in both her career and personal life

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

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

4 June 2025

Understanding the meaning of "equals" in mathematics tells us a lot about both the nuance and richness in the field, but also how ideas of equality are used or misused in life

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

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

4 June 2025

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be

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

30 May 2025

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

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

30 May 2025

In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discovery about the nature of time

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'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

30 May 2025

The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley on how she made time travel work in her bestselling novel, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club

GreenSTEM. Sainsbury Lab Cambridge University display at Chelsea Flower Show 2025. Credit J.Garget

From Chelsea to the British Library, garden shows are blooming

29 May 2025

There’s fascinating tech at London’s garden shows – from a mini greenhouse that transported live plants to Victorian England to the arboreal equivalent of smartwatches

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

28 May 2025

Philip Marsden's book Under a Metal Sky is an engrossing look at how we have excavated key metals and rocks over the millennia. It's a story shot through with awe, power, greed and hubris