Don’t Miss: Can we halt a sixth mass extinction?

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Vanished Giants: The lost world of the ice age by Anthony J. Stuart reveals the vibrant lives of Pleistocene megafauna, driven extinct by climate change and human hunters. Can lessons from the past halt a sixth mass extinction?

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Future of Food and Agriculture, New Scientist Live’s day of online talks and demonstrations, tackles how we can eat well and still save the planet. Live on 28 November and on demand afterwards.

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First Light: Switching on stars at the dawn of time finds physicist Emma Chapman exploring the early universe after hundreds of millions of years of dark expansion. At this time, the first stars – which were hundreds of times the size of the sun – burst into life.