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Octopus! Press Images from Amazon Prime

Life

èƵ recommends Phoebe Waller-Bridge's documentary Octopus!

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

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Somerville, MA - October 27: Pria Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out from Simon & Schuster (U.S.) and Little, Brown (U.K.) in June 2025 on October 27, 2024 in Somerville, MA. ( David Degner / www.DavidDegner.com )

Mind

Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains

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This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

Mind

This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

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An infected in Columbia Pictures' 28 YEARS LATER.

Comment

Danny Boyle's long-awaited zombie sequel 28 Years Later is a triumph

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Brixham UK. 09-19-23.Agatha Christie's book, Miss Marple's final cases. A murder mystery story.

Chemistry

Killer new book uncovers Agatha Christie's knowledge of toxicology

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El Eternauta. Ricardo Dar??n as Juan Salvo in El Eternauta. Cr. Mariano Landet / Netflix ??2025

Comment

This stunning post-apocalyptic drama is the one you should be watching

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by ADAM VAUGHAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14138456b) An aerial photograph taken by drone shows the recently felled tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, Britain, 05 October 2023. The famous tree at Sycamore Gap was cut down on the night of 27 September 2023, leading to the arrests of a 16-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man on suspicion of causing criminal damage. The tree appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and was part of the landscape for 200 years. One week after Britain's iconic Sycamore Gap Tree was felled, Northumberland, United Kingdom - 05 Oct 2023

Mind

A new book argues that revenge is an addiction – but doesn't convince

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In about 1.3 million years, the star system Gliese 710 is set to pass directly through our Oort Cloud, an event visualized in a dramatic scene in Encounters in the Milky Way. During its flyby, our systems will swap icy comets, flinging some out on new paths.

Space

èƵ recommends a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium

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WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

Physics

Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

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2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the 21st century. Time travel thriller meets romance in this excellent novel

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Society

A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

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Life

èƵ recommends the British Library’s Unearthed exhibition

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Comment

The best new science fiction books of June 2025

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Space

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

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