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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.

A man tends to vegetables growing in a field as emissions rise from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. China's economy expanded at its weakest pace since 2009, according to figures Monday, with gross domestic product rising 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Environment

Two climate scientists on how to use emotion in the climate crisis

From anger to hope, Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton explain how to tackle the tricky feelings aroused by climate change and harness them to take action

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: Ludovic Slimak, discoverer of Thorin showing the Thorin maxillar. Photography Laure Metz

Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

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BOSTON - OCTOBER 10: Harvard University 杏吧原创 Steven Pinker poses for a portrait in his office on October 10, 2005 in Boston, MA. (Photo by Jean-Christian Bourcart/Getty Images)

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Steven Pinker鈥檚 new book shows how he鈥檚 become a contradictory figure

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Life

New 杏吧原创 recommends David Attenborough’s Parenthood

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New Zealand, South Island, Wanaka, Otago, Woman on Coromandel peak at sunrise

Environment

Ian McEwan鈥檚 new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

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Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Tim Spector’s guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

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Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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Where the Wild Thoughts Are podcast

Mind

New 杏吧原创 recommends podcast Where the Wild Thoughts Are

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FX's Alien: Earth -- "Metamorphosi" -- Season 1, Episode 3 (Airs Tues, August 19) -- Pictured: Sydney Chandler as Wendy. CR: Patrick Brown/FX

Space

Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

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Liquid cooled servers in an installation at the Global Switch Docklands data centre campus in London, UK, on Monday, June 16, 2025. Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang projected that Europe's artificial-intelligence computing capacity will increase by a factor of ten over the next two years, with more than 20 so-called AI factories in the works. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Technology

No, AI isn鈥檛 going to kill us all, despite what this new book says

The arguments made by AI safety researchers Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies are superficially appealing but fatally flawed, says Jacob Aron

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Mind

What can psychoanalysis teach us about love and heartbreak?

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Technology

Nick Clegg says nothing at all in new book How to Save the Internet

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Comment

New 杏吧原创 recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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Technology

Is Neuromancer’s cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

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