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. Artist Jonathon Keats and the Fraunhofer Institute look to ancient stromatolite pillars (built by bacteria) to add resilience to coastal city design. At STATE Studio, Berlin, until 29 February.

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, directed by J. J. Abrams, is billed as the final part of the Star Wars saga. It promises to bring the ancient conflict between the Jedi and the Sith to a shattering climax. In cinemas from 19 December.

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(Allen Lane) finds science writer John Tierney and social psychologist Roy Baumeister unpicking negativity bias, a mental glitch that makes it easy for us to see things in a gloomy light.