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Don’t miss: a chance to play WiFI Wars and revisit the Apollo 8 days

Grab your smartphone as WiFi Wars erupt at the Royal Institution Christmas Bash, tune in for a rerun of an epic trip to the moon and brace for new survival game Miscreated

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Play

, launching on Steam on 18 December, is a post-apocalyptic survival game in which the weather is one of your fiercest enemies. The 70 different weapons will help. Our advice? Learn how to grow food.

Visit

Steve McNeil and Rob Sedgebeer from live comedy game show WiFi Wars host this year’s , from 7pm on 20 December. Bring your smartphone or tablet to compete in games, quizzes and challenges.

Last chance

A residency with geneticist Max Reuter and collaboration with Ben Murray, a computer scientist, inform artist Neus Torres Tamarit’s exhibition : The genetic tension between genders (pictured above), at the Grant Museum of Zoology, London. Ends 21 December.

Listen

Tune in to BBC Radio 3’s Between The Ears: Message from the moon at 9.30pm GMT on 22 December, and follow the Apollo 8 mission from launch to landing.

Read

Thomas Lin has assembled two cracking anthologies from Quanta magazine’s last five years. tackles the science, while Conspiracy covers the maths. Both are published by MIT Press.

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Topics: Books and art / Exhibition / games / zoology