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The first season of Heroes is almost perfect – here's why | New Scientist (opens the original)
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You rarely appreciate the significance of a moment while you are still living through it. But that is exactly what happened to me, 20 years ago this month, when a show called Heroes first aired. As you may have gathered from the title, it followed ordinary people whose genes have blessed (or cursed) them with extraordinary abilities, from time travel to telepathy. Made in the wake of the Human Genome Project, it was an elaborately plotted mystery, blending comic book aesthetics with a glancing i
Virginia Woolf's Night and Day is a bold look at women in astronomy | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Adaptations are tricky things: the more changes you make, the more you risk upsetting an audience of devotees. Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, a new film that takes certain liberties with its source material, may therefore dishearten some. Not having read the original, I can’t speak to whether the film will please fans, but I can say I found it a bold reimagining, thanks to its expanded focus on women in astronomy in the early 20th century. As in Woolf’s book, our hero is Katharine Hilbery (Hayl
As Star Trek turns 60, it's not too late to discover the seminal series | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Despite loving both science fiction and TV, I have never really got far with Star Trek, arguably the quintessential marriage of the two. I’ve seen and enjoyed the odd episode, and even flirted with the first season of The Next Generation, yet nothing has really stuck. In August, knowing that the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series was approaching in September, I decided to give it a proper go. But which, if any, show would pull me into this vast sci-fi universe? And what would I l
If this brilliant cosmic horror show passed you by, rectify that now | New Scientist (opens the original)
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What’s your favourite science-fiction trope? I’m not talking about subgenres like dystopias, space operas or “punks” of every flavour, but the small moments that keep cropping up. Jumping to warp speed? Waking from cryo-sleep? Unearthing an alien artefact? Here’s mine: when something awful and otherworldly befalls a group of scientists at a remote research station, it never fails to make me smile. And that’s exactly what happens in a series I recently stumbled upon while scrolling through HBO Ma
The 5 must-watch science shows of 2026 so far | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Cecil: The lion and the dentist (UK: Channel 4; US: not available) In 2015, an amateur trophy hunter from the US shot and killed the largest lion in Africa. The vitriol unleashed after Cecil’s death isn’t surprising (or entirely unwarranted), but what is remarkable is how this delicately-crafted film uses the case as a locus for all sorts of arguments about conservation. A symbol in life and in death, Cecil and other large, charismatic animals exist in a complex balance with humans who, one way
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