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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.

JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite

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Somerville, MA - October 27: Pria Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out from Simon & Schuster (U.S.) and Little, Brown (U.K.) in June 2025 on October 27, 2024 in Somerville, MA. ( David Degner / www.DavidDegner.com )

Mind

Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains

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A woman looking at a species exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums

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Octopus! Press Images from Amazon Prime

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s documentary Octopus!

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Mind

This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover’s delight

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An infected in Columbia Pictures' 28 YEARS LATER.

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Danny Boyle’s long-awaited zombie sequel 28 Years Later is a triumph

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by ADAM VAUGHAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14138456b) An aerial photograph taken by drone shows the recently felled tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, Britain, 05 October 2023. The famous tree at Sycamore Gap was cut down on the night of 27 September 2023, leading to the arrests of a 16-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man on suspicion of causing criminal damage. The tree appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and was part of the landscape for 200 years. One week after Britain's iconic Sycamore Gap Tree was felled, Northumberland, United Kingdom - 05 Oct 2023

Mind

A new book argues that revenge is an addiction – but doesn’t convince

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Brixham UK. 09-19-23.Agatha Christie's book, Miss Marple's final cases. A murder mystery story.

Chemistry

Killer new book uncovers Agatha Christie’s knowledge of toxicology

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In about 1.3 million years, the star system Gliese 710 is set to pass directly through our Oort Cloud, an event visualized in a dramatic scene in Encounters in the Milky Way. During its flyby, our systems will swap icy comets, flinging some out on new paths.

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium

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El Eternauta. Ricardo Dar??n as Juan Salvo in El Eternauta. Cr. Mariano Landet / Netflix ??2025

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This stunning post-apocalyptic drama is the one you should be watching

There are hundreds of TV apocalypses to choose from, but The Eternaut, a fresh and compelling adaptation of a classic Argentinian comic book series, is the one to pick, says Bethan Ackerley

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Society

A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

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Physics

Physicist Frank Close’s new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

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Life

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends the British Library’s Unearthed exhibition

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Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

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