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Hope Frozen review: The hard ethics of cryogenically freezing a child

Hope Frozen review: The hard ethics of cryogenically freezing a child

23 September 2020

Netflix’s Hope Frozen documentary follows a family in Thailand that cryogenically freezes their 2-year-old daughter’s brain after she dies, creating a controversy-fuelled media storm


Don't miss: A Nobel prizewinner's inside story of modern physics

Don't miss: A Nobel prizewinner's inside story of modern physics

10 June 2020

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss


Ocean Outbreak

The mysterious diseases killing starfish, sea fans and shellfish

29 May 2019

Ocean Outbreak unveils the little-known diseases wreaking havoc in the seas and the book does a first-rate job of inspiring readers at the same time


Behind the Sheet review: Eye-opening play follows slaves’ story

Behind the Sheet review: Eye-opening play follows slaves’ story

18 January 2019

The story of the unsung slave women who helped end an excruciating condition by enduring surgery without anaesthetic makes a play that deserves a wide audience


All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

14 January 2019

How has our visual culture adapted to the digital age? All too well, according to this show at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Is the internet losing its ability to surprise?


The Moon exhibition in Denmark re-enchants the satellite for our times

The Moon exhibition in Denmark re-enchants the satellite for our times

20 December 2018

We lament the loss of our connection to the light of stars and moon, but in the second of our 12 Days of Culture, a science-art exhibition imbues the moon with new meaning


Don't miss: The science of taking a stroll

Don't miss: The science of taking a stroll

20 May 2020

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss


The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

7 November 2019

In her new historical novel, Catherine Chung celebrates the women who shaped modern mathematics - and wonders why they weren't paid


Prototyping in Tokyo review – Imagining a future full of lifelike tech

Prototyping in Tokyo review – Imagining a future full of lifelike tech

23 January 2019

Is art more likely than old-school engineering to create the lifelike quality we will need in a world we share with machines? A robot show has surprising answers


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Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game

27 February 2019

Peek behind the scenes of the lab at London's Francis Crick Institute, hear all about the proposed particle accelerator at CERN and play a new video game