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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 鶹ý. Find out about and sign up to the 鶹ý Book Club here.
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Technology

Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation

Abigail is created to replace her owner's dead wife, just as robots are set to gain rights. Emily H. Wilson explores Lucy Lapinska's Some Body Like Me, the latest addition to "robo-rights" literature

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Humans

Are we really doomed? An entertaining guide to humanity's extinction

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Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

Earth

鶹ý recommends the esoteric Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

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Still from Rule Brakers (2025)

Society

Terrific drama shows the battle for girls' education in Afghanistan

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Physics

Exhibition uses art to explore the mysteries of the quantum world

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THE OA Brit Marling Season 1 Episode 6

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Rediscover The OA, a TV show with echoes of late director David Lynch

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Health

How neuroscience and bad studies have fuelled intensive parenting

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Helios at the Bath Assembly Rooms, Jan 2025

Space

鶹ý recommends Helios, Luke Jerram's giant sun sculpture

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

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Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s extraordinary new show, Deepstaria, is inspired by the marine life of the deep ocean

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Environment

Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

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鶹ý Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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Life

Gripping account of how plants and animals shaped each other

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Mind

Sci-fi thriller Dissolution smartly interweaves time travel and memory

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