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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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Society

Fascinating and enraging book exposes the biases that shape our lives

Melissa Hogenboom's Breadwinners reveals the unseen gender-based power dynamics and cognitive biases that shape our everyday lives. It will make you angry – and rightly so

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France, Provence, woman touching lavender bloosoms in field in the summer

Mind

Biodiversity needs neurodiversity, says insightful new book

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Of the Oak by Marshmallow Laser Feast (c) Marshmallow Laser Feast

Life

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Kew Gardens’ new Of the Oak exhibition

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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

Comment

Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

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"The faster the planet, the fiercer the storms..."

Comment

What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

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"I was weightless. The pod had taken flight..."

Environment

Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

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In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King's The Stand

Comment

The best new science fiction books of August 2025

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2YP7KC6 Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents Mid-Pacific, Deep sea exploration 2025. Deep-sea mining, Deep Ocean Volcanoes

Life

Earth’s extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

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2T96G2H Harvesting shrimp in a shrimp farm in Loc An, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam

Environment

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

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More than Human at the Design Museum

Comment

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends More Than Human at the Design Museum, London

The books, TV, games and more that Â鶹´«Ã½ staff have enjoyed this week

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Comment

Five years later, has sci-fi cult hit Devs aged well?

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The 25 best fictional robots – according to Â鶹´«Ã½

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Comment

Fictional female robots have a long history, and it’s often quite dark

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Comment

The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

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