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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.

Young woman with a backpack hiking in the mountains. Exploring in the nature, enjoying the view.

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Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book

Meet Craig Foster, from the Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher, who thinks we should reconnect with nature by plunging into icy waters or scanning remote landscapes

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FEE8WC Seoul, South Korea-November 15, 2015; Men playing in the outside ?Baduk? that is the Korean name for Go. November 15, 2015 Seoul

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New book explores how games shape the world 鈥� for better or for worse

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Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

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GamesPress handout image: Animal Well

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New 杏吧原创 recommends puzzle book S. by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams

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Janus Films handout film still: THE BEAST Directed by Bertrand Bonello. The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely ?erase? their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Le?a Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay).

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L茅a Seydoux and George MacKay dazzle in shocking sci-fi film The Beast

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Television Programme: The Leftovers with Justin Theroux as Kevin Garvey and Carrie Coon as Nora Durst. TL_202_042915_VR_-37.jpg The Leftovers Series 2

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It’s a decade old, but The Leftovers is still painfully resonant today

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Exhibition view, THE END OF AGING - by Michael Schindhelm, ?Surgery Room?, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, 2024

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Immersive new exhibition explores the pitfalls of defying old age

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Hunt for the Oldest DNA press picture. Eske Willerslev on fieldwork, Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

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Documentary explores a geneticist’s motivation to understand the past

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New 杏吧原创 recommends David Runciman’s podcast Past Present Future

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

New books from Adrian Tchaikovsky and the late Michael Crichton (with James Patterson) are among the great new sci-fi novels out this month

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s novel Eruption fails to thrill

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How to take on AI’s challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

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Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

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New 杏吧原创 recommends Now You See Us at the Tate Britain

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