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New Scientist recommends Wolfgang Tillmans's new exhibition in Paris

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

Culture

A woman looking at a species exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Life

A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums

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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

New Scientist recommends a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium

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A sunflower (flos slois major) Basilius Besler, Hortus Eystettensis. Altdorf, 1613. Courtesy British Library

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New Scientist recommends the British Library’s Unearthed exhibition

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Clare Hewitt: Everything in the forest is the forest Oak leaf lumen prints exposed to the sun on the forest floor

Life

Dazzling oak leaf prints merge science and nature

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Tutankhamun London: The Immersive Experience Pres Images

Humans

New Scientist recommends Tutankhamun: The immersive exhibition

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

Life

From Chelsea to the British Library, garden shows are blooming

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From streets to the stars: 500 years of maps at Kings College London?s Maughan Library

Earth

New Scientist recommends map exhibition From Streets to the Stars

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Reading the Regime du Corps

Humans

New Scientist recommends Curious Cures: Medicine in the medieval world

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Mudlark in gloves examines an old, green glass poison bottle with embossed text ? London Museum Mudlarkers photographed on the Thames between Millenium Bridge and Southwark Bridge along with finds, landscape views and close ups.

Humans

New Scientist recommends Secrets of the Thames mudlarking exhibition

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

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Video

How mudlarks are uncovering thousands of years of London's history

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Physics

Exhibition uses art to explore the mysteries of the quantum world

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Physics

Hypnotic art has its roots in the terrifying reality of nuclear bombs

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Space

New Scientist recommends Helios, Luke Jerram's giant sun sculpture

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