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Major US art event explores the bonds between art and science

More than 70 exhibitions across Southern California are taking on the relationship between art and science, with compelling results

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A personal investigation into the crisis of men's mental health

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Silent Men is the debut feature-length documentary from BAFTA Scotland winning Scottish filmmaker Duncan Cowles.

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New Scientist recommends Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

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SALAR DE ATACAMA, CHILE - AUGUST 24: A lithium mine supervisor inspects an evaporation pond of lithium-rich brine in the Atacama Desert on August 24, 2022 in Salar de Atacama, Chile. Albemarle Corporation, based in Charlotte, N.C. is expanding mining operations at their Salar Plant to meet the rising global demand for lithium carbonate, a main component in the manufacture of batteries, increasingly for electric vehicles. To extract the lithium, natural brine is pumped from under the salt flats to a series of evaporation ponds. During an 18-month process, the liquid s moved through 15 ponds, eventually turning from blue to yellow with a lithium concentration of 6 percent. It is then trucked to an Albemarle chemical plant in Antofagasta, where it is processed into battery grade lithium carbonate powder and shipped out internationally. The evaporation process produces large quantities of salt byproduct, much of which is then reprocessed and sold. Chile is the second largest global producer of lithium, after Australia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Environment

The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"

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2X1H226 Klosterneuburg - Sir Roger Penrose during interview with Austria Presse Agentur at Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria on 21st May 2015. Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. - 20150521_PD11744 - Rechteinfo: Rights Managed (RM)

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

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New Scientist recommends the Pier 26 Science Playground

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In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

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

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The best new science fiction books of November 2024

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The best new science fiction books of November 2024

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer

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Film still from Orca - Black and White Gold.

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Tense docu-thriller exposes the cruelties of commercial whale trade

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New Scientist recommends detective dramedy Ludwig

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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

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