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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.

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Health

Scurvy: A tale of the sailors’ curse and a cure that got lost

The fact that it took such a long time to nail the true cause of scurvy tells us a lot about science both then and now, argues a new book about the disease

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Technology

What if we are victims of an AI’s singularity?

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Humans

When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?

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Environment

Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

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Humans

A Day in the Life of the Brain hunts consciousness

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Environment

Trees have an inner life like ours, claims bestseller

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Technology

Lo and Behold takes Werner Herzog on a tour round the internet

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Humans

Why rest and relaxation are such a serious business

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Ground Zero

Humans

Who Owns the Dead? The atrocity of 9/11 casts a long shadow

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Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

It鈥檚 not all downhill after men hit their physical peak 鈥� older guys could explain human longevity, argues a new book about male ageing

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Humans

An enormous shape-shifting artwork 鈥� run by yeast

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Humans

The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival

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Environment

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

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Health

A new London musical will change the way we think about cancer

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