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The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020

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The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020

Wondering what to read, watch and see this year? Here's our cracking cultural calendar of the most interesting non-fiction, films, games, events and sci-fi in 2020

Culture

Oil spill

Environment

Oil spills could be cleaned up by giving local microbes extra genes

News

Plectrocebus parecis monkey

Life

Monkeys hiding on a plateau in the Amazon turn out to be new species

News

Adult mountain gorilla

Health

How a Ugandan vet saved hundreds of gorillas by treating human disease

Regulars

transparent solar cell

Technology

Punching holes in solar cells turns them into transparent windows

News

Don't miss: knotty sculptures, deadly diseases and molecular machines

Technology

Don't miss: knotty sculptures, deadly diseases and molecular machines

Culture

Shot of a young woman suffering from stomach cramps in her bedroom

Health

Some women feel fetal kicks years after they've given birth

News

Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans

Life

Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans

News

steel workers

Environment

Tackling emissions from heavy industry is key to fixing climate change

Leader

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Humans

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

In her new historical novel, Catherine Chung celebrates the women who shaped modern mathematics - and wonders why they weren't paid

Culture

Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

News

Environment

UK government rings death knell for the fracking industry

News

Health

Sorry, having sex won't start labour – but rubbing your nipples might

News

Life

Some monkeys reuse their stone tools but others just chuck them away

News