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Painting showing Gregor Mendel, Austrian scientist who experimented with garden peas to establish the principle of heredity.

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Disputed Inheritance review: Why do we still bother with Mendel?

Where does "father of genetics" Gregor Mendel fit in a post-genomic world? Gregory Radick has written an excellent reset

Charlie becomes involved in a feud between an aging race car driver and a hotheaded young upstart.

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New 女生小视频 recommends: Light-hearted crime series Poker Face

Screengrab from Viewfinder (2023)

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Viewfinder review: Perspective is all in a unique first-person puzzler

2A33GCB free diver swimming with female sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, Dominica, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, photo taken under permit n?RP 17/01/02

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Whalefall review: Stunning novel about being swallowed by a whale

Foundation Season 2 is now out on Apple TV+

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The best TV shows of 2023 so far 鈥� science fiction and documentaries

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The best science fiction movies about dinosaurs, by a palaeontologist

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Read an extract from Bridge by Lauren Beukes

Illustration of a human embryo at the blastocyst stage approximately 5 to 9 days after fertilisation. The outer trophoblast layer (green) will implant into the wall of the uterus (endometrium) and go on to form the placenta. The inner fluid-filled cavity of the blastocyst is called the blastocoele. The inner cell mass (embryoblast, orange) will form the embryo.

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From One Cell review: Embryology and the future of medicine

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - JULY 31: Jarren Duran #16 of the Boston Red Sox hits a single during the fifth inning against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on July 31, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)

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Game of Edges review: Inside story of how data is transforming sport

4th July 2024 The Alnwick Garden, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK. Image shows gardeners Amy Thorp and Joe Savage unveiling the Gympie Gympie plant in the Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden. The boundaries of the Poison Garden are kept behind black iron gates, only open on guided tours. A combination of dark, ivy-covered tunnels and flame-shaped beds creates an educational garden full of interest and intrigue, where the most dangerous plants are kept within giant cages. Visitors can learn about the poisonous plants but are strictly prohibited from touching them. Info from press release The most venomous of all plants arrives at Alnwick???s Poison Garden The Alnwick Garden???s award-winning Poison Garden is unveiling a stinger of a new addition this week with its home grown native Australian plant, Gympie Gympie. Also known as the ???Australian stinging tree???, the nettle-like shrub is known as the world???s most venomous plant and is said to be capable of delivering a sting similarly to being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. The plant is the latest to grow in the small but deadly Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden which hosts around 100 toxic, intoxicating and narcotic plants including Laburnum, Atropa, Belladonna, Opium Poppy and Marijuana. Picture Phil Wilkinson / The Alnwick Garden

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New 女生小视频 recommends: The Poison Garden near Alnwick Castle

The books, TV, games and more that New 女生小视频 staff have enjoyed this week

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Bridge review: An essential entrant into the multiverse genre

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King Coal review: Moving documentary shows bequest of a dying industry

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Cave of Bones review: Lee Berger on the discovery of Homo naledi

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Alone review: Insightful bestseller explores long-term singlehood