杏吧原创

Culture

Explore the latest science non-fiction books and sci-fi novels, plus science and technology-related theatre, exhibitions, games, movies and TV programmes with reviews and recommendations from New 杏吧原创.

Earth

Volcanoes and Wine: Why a match made in hell tastes like heaven

From Etna to Vesuvius, Santorini to Stromboli, volcanoes have long been linked to excellent wines. New book Volcanoes and Wine explores this unlikely terroir

Culture

Humans

Gamechanger: L. X. Beckett鈥檚 latest sci-fi novel lives up to its name

Culture

Don’t miss: Body portraits, killer doubles and a stellar mind at work

Culture

Environment

Sea of Shadows: Film documents demise of the world’s smallest porpoise

Culture

Humans

BBC coverage of the Martian invasion will follow shortly

Culture

Humans

Bill Bryson’s new book celebrates the miraculous human body

Culture
Trevor Paglen

Life

Don’t miss: Computer collage, global gold and orbital capital

Culture

Humans

The Institute by Stephen King leads a revolutionary sci-fi reboot

Culture

Space

Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can’t save dull space psychodrama

Culture
spaceman

Space

Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?

Imagined Life, a riveting update of what we know about the planets beyond our solar system, makes smart guesses about what we might face when we do make contact

Culture

Life

Don’t miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

Culture

Comment

The best roguelike games are a perfect balance of order and randomness

Culture

Environment

Climate change: Is capitalism the problem or the solution?

Culture

Mind

Don’t Miss: Interplanetary paranoia, green buildings and anxious art

Culture