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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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Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

In this extract from Daisy Fancourt's Art Cure, the March read for the New 杏吧原创 Book Club, we learn about how art classes transformed life for Russell after he had a stroke

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From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

Space

What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

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Pierre Huyghe

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New 杏吧原创 recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals

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Moises Arias

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Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

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A roundup of the New 杏吧原创 Book Club’s February read

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Technology

Hannah Fry: ‘AI can do some superhuman things 鈥� but so can forklifts’

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MB05RG Oysters and champagne with lemon wedge and mignette dressing on white plate on blue distressed vintage table.

Life

New 杏吧原创 recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

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Fish eye lens view of a man, wearing a striped short-sleeve shirt, inspecting an IBM System/360 Model 91 mainframe computer system, United States, circa 1965. (Photo by Dwight Ellefsen/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Technology

What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths

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GERMANY. 1990. Celebrating the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Mind

What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

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4238_D045_00238_R Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew in director Chlo?? Zhao???s HAMNET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / ?? 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

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New 杏吧原创 recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature

The books, TV, games and more that New 杏吧原创 staff have enjoyed this week

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Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel

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Environment

Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic

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Space

A new ‘brief history’ of the universe paints a wide picture

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New 杏吧原创 recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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