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Ask a physicist!Sean Carroll answers your questions about time
17:00 30 November 2009 - updated 17:10 30 November 2009
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here, answers your most mind boggling questions about the nature of time.
The gadget that makes a drama out of the language barrier
16:25 30 November 2009 - updated 16:46 30 November 2009
Visiting the theatre may never be the same again, thanks to a handheld device that allows you to read the script as it is performed by the cast - in eight different languages
On the origin of gods: The evolution of religion
11:00 30 November 2009 - updated 16:02 30 November 2009
In The Faith Instinct, Nicholas Wade argues that in early human societies religion evolved as the best solution to lawlessness and warfare
Hypocritical or apolitical? Von Braun deconstructed
10:00 30 November 2009
The reputation of Wernher von Braun, the Nazi-to-NASA rocket genius, is revisited in Dark Side of the Moon by Wayne Biddle
Origin of Species: The remix: Chapter 14
09:00 30 November 2009
The evolution of evolution concludes with Chapter 14 of New Scientist's On the Origin of Species, Revisited
Science, according to Ricky Gervais
11:00 28 November 2009
Ricky Gervais's new stand up act Science doesn't exactly live up to its name - but who would really want it to?
Art, embodied
13:00 27 November 2009
A new exhibit at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo celebrates the intersection of art and science in the human body - featuring works from Leonardo da Vinci to Damien Hirst.
Philip Glass's hypnotic astronomy
10:00 27 November 2009
Philip Glass's new opera Kepler explores the astronomer's tumultous intellectual path and he struggled with the cosmos and with theology.
Origin of Species: The remix: Chapter 13
09:00 27 November 2009
The evolution of evolution continues with Chapter 13 of New Scientist's On the Origin of Species, Revisited
Also on NS: Neuroaesthetics
17:00 26 November 2009 - updated 20:35 26 November 2009
The brain seems to have a code for different artistic styles, which could one day be used to classify art
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Science fiction: The stories of now
US science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson thinks British SF is in a golden age. It's time it won some literary awards – and for everyone to give it a go
