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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Sony Pictures

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New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

The books, TV, games and more that New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ staff have enjoyed this week

Culture

Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Health workers wearing face mask stand in front of a triage tent for suspected COVID-19 patients outside the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon on April 2, 2020. - Over 500 people have died in Portugal after contracting COVID-19 among more than 6,000 recorded cases of the disease. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives

Culture

BEIJING - AUGUST 11: (L-R) Eamon Sullivan of Australia, Michael Phelps of the United States and Amaury Leveaux of France compete in the Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final held at the National Aquatics Center on Day 3 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 11, 2008 in Beijing, China. The United States finished the race in first place in a time of 3:08.24 and wins the gold medal and set a new World Record. Eamon Sullivan of Australia set a time of 47.24 in the first leg, a new World Record. (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

Physics

Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our world rubbing along

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Plastic bottle in a breaking wave

Physics

A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea

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Ryoji Ikeda, data-cosm [n?1], 180 Studios, 2025. Photo by Alice Lubbock.

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New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends pioneering artist Ryoji Ikeda's new work

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Oona Chaplin as Varang in 20th Century Studios' AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. ?? 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Space

New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends Avatar: Fire and Ash – especially the whale

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3APAPEW Dark silhouette of a girl in dress on mystical deep space background

Space

Peter F. Hamilton's latest is an epic slice of sci-fi – with one flaw

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Directly above view of a chef chopping tomatoes

Society

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

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Jockeys compete in a race for purebred Arabian horses at the Liwa International Festival 2023, some 250 kilometres west of the Gulf Emirate of Abu Dhabi, on December 23, 2022. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP) (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Life

A fascinating book reveals the ancient story of horses and humans

Ludovic Orlando's Horses is an enthralling account by one of the main players, detailing how genetics has rewritten what we know about the intertwined story of horses and humans, now spanning over 4000 years

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Comment

Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing

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Mind

A new book provides a toolkit to tackle anxiety. Can it really help?

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Technology

We're getting intimate with chatbots. A new book asks what this means

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Health

As Ozempic goes global, a powerful book reframes how we see obesity

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