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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.

The Beauty -- Pictured: Bella Hadid as Ruby. CR: Philippe Antonello/FX

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The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre’s point

In The Beauty, mysterious deaths of models are linked to a new drug and a sexually transmitted infection, both of which kill as they beautify. But if you want great body horror, this isn't the place to look, concludes Bethan Ackerley

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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The best new science fiction books of February 2026

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Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

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Tim Winton: ‘Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate’

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BEIJING - AUGUST 11: (L-R) Eamon Sullivan of Australia, Michael Phelps of the United States and Amaury Leveaux of France compete in the Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final held at the National Aquatics Center on Day 3 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 11, 2008 in Beijing, China. The United States finished the race in first place in a time of 3:08.24 and wins the gold medal and set a new World Record. Eamon Sullivan of Australia set a time of 47.24 in the first leg, a new World Record. (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

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Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our world rubbing along

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Health workers wearing face mask stand in front of a triage tent for suspected COVID-19 patients outside the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon on April 2, 2020. - Over 500 people have died in Portugal after contracting COVID-19 among more than 6,000 recorded cases of the disease. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives

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Ryoji Ikeda, data-cosm [n?1], 180 Studios, 2025. Photo by Alice Lubbock.

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New 杏吧原创 recommends pioneering artist Ryoji Ikeda’s new work

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Plastic bottle in a breaking wave

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A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea

Where is physics headed? No one knows for sure, but Beyond the Quantum by Antony Valentini is a striking new book that reminds us what a big idea really looks like, finds Jon Cartwright

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Life

A fascinating book reveals the ancient story of horses and humans

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Society

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

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Space

New 杏吧原创 recommends Avatar: Fire and Ash 鈥� especially the whale

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Space

Peter F. Hamilton’s latest is an epic slice of sci-fi 鈥� with one flaw

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