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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 Â鶹´«Ã½.

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Life

Eye of the shoal: Inside the surprising world of fish

Why do some fish sport beautiful colours? Can they feel pain? What’s special about lanternfish? The piscine world is awash with surprises, reveals a new book

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Humans

A new data-driven idea of warfare doesn’t quite add up

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Life

Don’t miss: amateur surgery, aqua-activism and a twisted Turing test

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Earth

Globetrotting film sends scientists on “relay race” of inquiry

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Life

Don’t miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

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Technology

A friendly introduction to AI proves oddly unnerving

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Humans

The clock-maker who helped fashion art from science

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Health

The Inflamed Mind: Big claims over depression need big evidence

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Health

Don’t miss: IVF history, a Jurassic world game and number talk

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Humans

London’s Horniman Museum has squeezed a world into a room

Objective truths about human culture are hard to come by, but this beautiful new gallery asks all the right questions

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Earth

Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology: Bobby the whale and Attenborough

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Mind

The Habitat: Podcast power turns us into terraformers

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Environment

Rainforest romanticism is derailing our hunt for new drugs

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Physics

Stars gravitate to Stephen Hawking’s memorial service

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