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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.

Fungal material made into letters spelling out "Spawn the future"

Technology

Fungal products won’t win prizes for glamour but will be greener

Food, clothes and building materials made from mycelial threads impress Sjef van Gaalen at the Fungal Futures exhibition in Utrecht, the Netherlands

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Protesters in colourful outfits stand in front of a bus that says Gbus to MTV on it

Humans

Can two new books save the internet from its own success?

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Tokyo tube

Environment

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

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Ramanujan

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

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cards

Humans

Take a punt: The thrilling science of risk and chance

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Abramovic

Humans

Past, present, future: How do we deal with time?

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G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) walk together, deep in conversation

Humans

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

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Dark blue image of man apparently wearing unusual goggles

Â鶹´«Ã½’s 2016 Sci-Fi-London competition: the results

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Space

The play X will have you clock-watching – but in a good way

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speech waveform

Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

Andy Clark’s masterly book overturns traditional views about our brains, arguing they make internal models of reality which they then compare with incoming data

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Life

Savagely malled: Why ‘smart’ cities aren’t so smart

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Humans

Follow the life of the last man on the moon

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Humans

The ‘three hares’ motif is an ancient mystery for our times

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Environment

Being a beast: What happens when people live as other animals?

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