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11 January 2023

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is delivered with humour and erudition by Anthony Zee. What better way to get the little grey cells going than by unifying quantum mechanics and special relativity? On sale from 17 January.

A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, includes four in Earth's size-range orbiting a single dwarf star. — NASA/JPL-Caltech

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is a talk by Clara Brasseur about representing telescope data as sound, also called astronomical data sonification. Listen to real data from the Kepler Space Telescope (pictured above) in her online talk on 20 January at 7.30pm GMT.

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struggle to colonise Antarctica following a mysterious invasion in Tom Rob Smith’s high-concept thriller.…

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