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A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war

In his latest book, Why War?, historian Richard Overy grapples with a question that stumped Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – why do humans persist in waging war?

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TOPSHOT - A man pushes a bycicle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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Matt Parker's comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths

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Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book

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Martha Wells: I didn’t know how non-neurotypical I was until Murderbot

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New Scientist recommends puzzle book S. by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams

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Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

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Janus Films handout film still: THE BEAST Directed by Bertrand Bonello. The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely ?erase? their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Le?a Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay).

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Léa Seydoux and George MacKay dazzle in shocking sci-fi film The Beast

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New book explores how games shape the world – for better or for worse

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Television Programme: The Leftovers with Justin Theroux as Kevin Garvey and Carrie Coon as Nora Durst. TL_202_042915_VR_-37.jpg The Leftovers Series 2

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It's a decade old, but The Leftovers is still painfully resonant today

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Documentary explores a geneticist's motivation to understand the past

Hunt for the Oldest DNA, the story of Eske Willerslev, a Danish evolutionary geneticist reconstructing ecosystems from ancient DNA, is as compelling as his scientific discoveries

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New Scientist recommends David Runciman's podcast Past Present Future

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New Scientist recommends David Runciman's podcast Past Present Future

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Exhibition view, THE END OF AGING - by Michael Schindhelm, ?Surgery Room?, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, 2024

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Immersive new exhibition explores the pitfalls of defying old age

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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The Cannon Hall Muscat Grape. Plate 24. Watercolour on paper. Signed lower left Mrs Withers Delt. Painter to Her Majesty. 44.4 cm. x 35.2 cm., slotted onto page. c.1825.

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New Scientist recommends Now You See Us at the Tate Britain

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