The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
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The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
By Chelsea Whyte
13 May 2026
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Australian collections of the endangered and notoriously unpredictable flowers have popped off in recent years, as ‘personas’…
From the beloved vanilla orchid, whose pods flavor many of our favorite desserts, to the nose-twisting corpse flower, whose…
From a tree that bleeds red sap to a flower with no roots or leaves, these 15 plants are more extreme than most science fiction…
Corpse flowers can take years to bloom, but when they do it’s an olfactory event nobody wants to miss.
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, while Alice Roberts takes on an…
