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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 17: A statue of J. Marion Sims, a surgeon celebrated by many as the father of modern gynecology, is driven away in a Parks Department truck after being taken down from its pedestal at Central Park and East 103rd Street on April 17, 2018 in New York City. A New York City panel decided to move the controversial statue after groups demanded its removal as many of Sims medical breakthroughs came from experimenting on black slaves without anesthesia. The statue will be relocated in Green-Wood Cemetery in Windsor Terrace, where Sims is buried. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Divided review: Why we must eliminate racism from Western healthcare

A legacy of racism in Western medicine means healthcare is badly in need of decolonising. Annabel Sowemimo's book sets out why

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Monarch mass flight

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Alien Worlds review: Celebrating Earth’s insects 鈥� as they disappear

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Dusty Beginnings of a Star This artist's rendering gives us a glimpse into a cosmic nursery as a star is born from the dark, swirling dust and gas of this cloud. Stars form when dark dust from the cloud begins to clump together under the influence of its own gravity. The infalling material forms a disk as it spirals inward, which feeds material onto the forming star at its center. Jets of material that shoot from the inner disk and protostar herald its birth. Planets form out of the remnants of the disk of material that surrounds the infant star. This leads to a question that has long perplexed astronomers about the nature of brown dwarfs, objects that fall between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass.

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Don’t Miss: A Supernova science talk by astrophysicist Thomas Haworth

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The Forest Cathedral Whitethorn Games

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The Forest Cathedral review: Can Silent Spring work as a game?

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2B034C5 In addition to Herman Melville's own experience on the whaling ship Acushnet, two real events served as the genesis for his Moby Dick. One was the sinking of the Nantucket ship Essex in 1820, after a sperm whale rammed her 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the western coast of South America. The other event was the alleged killing in the late 1830s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick, in the waters off the Chilean island of Mocha. Mocha Dick was rumored to have 20 or so harpoons in his back from other whalers, and appeared to attack ships with premeditated ferocity.

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Once Upon a Prime review: The connections between maths and fiction

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Adam Driver stars in 65.

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65 review: Timing is a bit off in Adam Driver’s dinosaur thriller

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HANGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 24, 2022 - Visitors interact with the "self" using digital twin technology at the Metaverse exhibition area of the China International Cartoon and Animation Festival in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Nov 24, 2022. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

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Virtual You review: The quest to build your digital twin

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2F618EY Landing of the James Caird On South Georgia, 1916

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Presence review: A lively look at why we experience ghostly presences

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Patagotitan skull CREDIT MEF

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Don’t Miss: Titanosaur on show at London’s Natural History Museum

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Episode 1. Sienna Miller in "Extrapolations," premiering March 17, 2023 on Apple TV+.

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Extrapolations review: Can this climate sci-fi make us care?

Earth's climate is reeling out of control in this eight-part sci-fi series stuffed with A-listers. From one of the minds behind An Inconvenient Truth, it is heavy on messaging, but lacks some focus

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Your Brain on Art review: Fascinating guide needs a bit more science

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Don’t Miss: Explore great mysteries of physics in an ambitious podcast

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Atomic Light review: Solar astronomers rescue an uneven installation

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Saving Time review: We need a longer sense of time 鈥� based on nature

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