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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

Space

The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

With Steven Spielberg’s new extraterrestrial film Disclosure Day just out, it’s the ideal time to watch Close Encounter of the Third Kind – perhaps the perfect UFO film, says film columnist Bethan Ackerley

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Backrooms A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Comment

Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director

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Archaeopteryx. Artwork of the prehistoric feathered reptile Archaeopteryx which lived around 150 million years ago. Discovered in 1861 in southern Germany, it was the first feathered fossil specimen ever found. Despite possessing bird-like feathers, wings and a wishbone, Archaeopteryx also had sharp teeth, finger digits and a bony tail similar to non-bird predatory dinosaurs. This species and numerous other feathered fossils support the theory that modern day birds evolved from prehistoric theropod dinosaurs.

Life

New ÒÁÈ˾þà recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds

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Art and nature come together in stunning new Henry Moore exhibition

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Art and nature come together in stunning new Henry Moore exhibition

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How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

Environment

How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

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Alice Roberts

Humans

Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

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CXP17N Giant Anatomical Man model outside the Tate Modern London promoting Damient Hurst

Health

New ÒÁÈ˾þà recommends a deep dive into our organs by Giulia Enders

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Everyone is Lying to You for Money is a must-watch exposé of crypto

Comment

Everyone is Lying to You for Money is a must-watch exposé of crypto

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

Life

New ÒÁÈ˾þà recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes thrilling reading, finds Penny Sarchet

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Comment

The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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Life

Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Environment

'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present'

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Life

New ÒÁÈ˾þà recommends Turi King's expert book about DNA's secrets

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