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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.

GB. England. Bristol. 2021. Bristol Royal Infirmary. Martin Parr's cancer treatment. Chemotherapy transfusion.

Health

A sharp interrogation of why we retreat from other people’s illnesses

How well do we look after people who are seriously sick? Astonishingly, research is scant 鈥� which makes Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton's ambitious new book, Being Ill, very welcome

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P1MNB3 The spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) is a species of viper endemic to western Iran which was described in 2006. The head look

Life

Richard Dawkins’s latest crams gorgeous writing in an ill-fitting box

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How The Light Gets In festival press handout image.

Space

New 杏吧原创 recommends HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London

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San Sebastian Film Festival handout picture: Bel Powley, Nick Robinson in Michael Tyburski's 'Turn Me On'.

Mind

Bel Powley is fabulous in this wonderful dystopian satire

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Cloud and trees reflections on river Wye with Black mountains background.

Life

It’s time to celebrate a renaissance in English nature writing

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BAW24_PaPop_Rohini Devasher, Sol Drawings, 2023_Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco

Space

New 杏吧原创 recommends astronomy exhibition Borrowed Light in Berlin

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Bill Gates in What?s Next: The Future with Bill Gates. Cr. Netflix ? 2024

Technology

Bill Gates’s Netflix series offers some dubious ideas about the future

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Alan Moore

Comment

The best new science fiction books of October 2024

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Nisi Shawl and Grace Wade
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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler’s legacy

Video

Humans

Rachel Kushner鈥檚 Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake is top-notch

For an undercover operative, Sadie Smith takes unnecessary risks as she infiltrates an eco-activist group. Why? And where do the Neanderthals fit into Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted climate fiction novel? Emily H. Wilson loved finding out

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Life

Richard Powers’s new novel is a beautiful love letter to our oceans

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Environment

How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis

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Technology

Samantha Morton stars in dystopian docudrama 2073

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Society

New 杏吧原创 recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Third Realm

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