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Andrea Wulf with her award

Earth

Â鶹´«Ã½ reviews the Royal Society book prize winners

The list of winners of the 2016 Royal Society book prize has been announced. Here’s what we thought of some of them

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Conceptual city on US-Mexico border

Humans

Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world

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utopia mock-up

Life

Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place

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loudhailer

Technology

Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?

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Time Machine

Physics

Fast forward: How we learned to love time travel

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Enterprise

Space

Stardate 08092016, Star Trek’s birthday mission

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Environment

Animal sound symphony tells us new things about our world

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Colorado river

Environment

How water shortages flow into collaboration not war

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Neolithic tools

Humans

Britain’s first lumberjacks have long tales to tell

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Humans

Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award

This year's winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award is a story of two kinds of alien – one of them human - trying to understand each another

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Humans

We are gods of the future – but what will we do?

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Life

Europe at Midnight: SF, with a very British take

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Humans

Money alone won’t turn us into unselfish citizens

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Life

Turning tech into a god is seriously bad news

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