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Kerllen Costa, Dr. Steve Boyes, and a group of Angolan tribal hunters check Steve's cellphone video of a ghost elephant at their search camp. (Credit: Ariel Leon Isacovitch) Ghost Elephants

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Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary

A film about the quest for “ghost elephants” is as much about not knowing and asking the right questions as about exploration, finds Davide Abbatescianni

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Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

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Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

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EDITORIAL USE ONLY Quaz Qureshi in ???Museum of Edible Earth', a new exhibition by dr. masharu on display at Somerset House in London. Picture date: Tuesday March 17, 2026. PA Photo. The exhibition explores the practice of 'geophagy', the consumption of earth for health, customary, or culinary benefits, running from March 18 to April 26. Photo credit should read: David Parry/PA Media Assignments

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èƵ recommends sampling the Museum of Edible Earth in London

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Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

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What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex

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Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'

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èƵ recommends the engaging Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal

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The best new popular science books of April 2026

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The best new popular science books of April 2026

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our brains courtesy of Hannah Critchlow, to get to grips with really big numbers, thanks to Richard Elwes

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

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Space

Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

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Space

Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

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