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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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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club, explores the philosophical implications of the choices her characters make

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A global love letter to nature, Super Nature is an immersive exploration of our world today, filmed exclusively on the original home movie format, Super 8. Led by filmmaker Ed Sayers, we?re invited on a spellbinding journey of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth - human and non-human - as people embrace beauty, abundance and loss. Embracing all we have, and all we have to lose, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing. Silver-washed Fritillary butterfly in close-up feeding from purple flowers, filmed on Super 8. PRESS ENQUIRIES: SOPHIA HAMMOND SOPHIA@MARGARETLONDON.COM Stills: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cnSqOOSw-8zVKLFZCotrg9SzJ3XjOQd0

Life

Nature documentary shot on Super 8 film is ravishing and unpredictable

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Aplysia californica

Mind

Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

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TOPSHOT - Workers including restaurant staff look at their phones during a break while sitting on a bench in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on September 30, 2024. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow’s new book explores

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Never Let Me go book cover

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Never Let Me Go

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Peter Betts with delegates - Cop17 in Durban, South Africa

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An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits

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An aerial view of downtown San Jose California skyline taken 06-16-2021. San Jose is the core urban hub of high technology referred to as Silicon Valley.

Health

Chilling book exposes true cost of tech bros’ immortality dreams

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A new festival at Kew Gardens explores sustainable fashion through art, plants and design. Material World opens 20 September.

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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The Whie House Effect

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Must-watch documentary shows how Bush Senior failed the climate

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Beyond Human series. Collage of human, geometric and natural forms on the subject of inner reality, mental health, imagination, mysticism, thinking and dreaming.; Shutterstock ID 164294465; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other:

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If you love AI, you’ll love Ken Liu’s new cyberpunk thriller

In Ken Liu's All That We See or Seem, a once-famous hacker must find a missing dream-weaver. One for AI fans, but it didn't quite work for Emily H. Wilson

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Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a sumptuous take on a classic parable

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Life

A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Sheri S. Tepper’s science fiction novel Grass

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Earth

The Whispers of Rock is a personal journey through aeons of geology

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