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Scent explores the mood-altering world of perfume. Elise Vernon Pearlstine, a zoologist-cum-parfumier, tells the evolutionary story of plant fragrances that seduce and repulse, heal and protect. Available to buy from 26 July.

RESIDENT EVIL. (L to R) ELLA BALINKSA as JADE, ELLA BALINSKA as JADE in RESIDENT EVIL. Cr. MARCOS CRUZ/NETFLIX ?? 2021

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Resident Evil’s Raccoon City receives a futuristic makeover in a new adaptation of the hit video-game series. You might have thought that their city planners would have learned not to build above secret bioweapon labs by now… Streaming on Netflix from 14 July.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Melvin Nicholson/Bav Media/Shutterstock (10489566b) A 14-metre sperm whale washed up on Seilebost Beach on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland Sperm whale dies after washing up on beach, Isle of Harris, Scotland - 28 Nov 2019 A 14-metre sperm whale has died after it was washed up on the British coast yesterday (Thurs).The enormous whale was alive when it was found beached on Seilebost Beach on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland on Thursday morning (Nov 28), but it died shortly afterwards.Photographer Melvin Nicholson, who was visiting the beach, said: "The whale was alive when I first arrived at around 11am, but by the time I had walked down to it around one-and-a-half hours later, it had passed away. It was very sad to see it stranded on the beach". Around a quarter of the world's whale and dolphin species either live or pass through the waters off the west coast of Scotland and they are often spotted from the shore or on ferries that travel between the Hebridean islands.

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On Sonorous Seas is a podcast accompanying a multimedia exhibition on the Isle of Mull …