Eleanor Parsons

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

From a police detective to an orthopaedic surgeon, Daniel Tammet shows that there is no such thing as a single neurodiverse experience in his book, Nine Minds: Inner lives on the spectrum

What anxiety actually is has puzzled scientists for decades. Now we are starting to figure out how it may arise from miscommunication between the body and the brain

From a fabled drowned kingdom in Wales to echoes of Noah’s ark in the Mahabharata, warnings of hubris in abusing nature resonate in Gareth E. Rees’s world tour of flood myths

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

When most people are asked to name a river, they often reach for the Amazon or Nile, but these aren’t the only remarkable rivers out there. Here are 10 more from around the world – and solar system

Animals found around hydrothermal vents – from snails covered in metal plates to hairy crabs – have unusual adaptations to survive with no sunlight and extreme pressure

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

There is an abundance of weird and wonderful life in the depths of the sea – and The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales is an excellent introduction to it

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who became the first woman to win a Nobel prize. Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out pioneering research into radioactivity.