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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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Space

Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel

In Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky's intriguing new novel, two women marooned on a strange moon encounter alien life – and struggle to recognise intelligence in other beings, finds Emily H. Wilson

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DNDTWK April 25, 2013 - A bright bolide meteor breaking up as it enters the atmosphere under the light of a full moon.

Space

A thrilling guide to the Indiana Jones-like world of meteorite hunting

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The best new science fiction books of February 2025

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Mind

This look at animal consciousness is a moral workout – in the best way

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FRANCE. Fashion shoot for Citizen K International. From 'Fashion Magazine'. 1999.

Life

A lively history shows that the human neck is full of surprises

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends the British Museum’s Silk Roads exhibition

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NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 09: Traders work the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange November 9, 2005 in New York City. Following a report that inventories of crude and gasoline grew in the last week, oil prices dropped Wednesday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Life

How humans evolved to think about risk may cost Earth dearly

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The surprising science that reveals what it takes to win The Traitors

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Paul Jutte (L) and Alexa Johnson (R) of Cincinnati, Ohio, counter a counter-protest of a Women's March rally against the National Rifle Association by conservative gun rights activists on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., July 15, 2017. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan

Society

What should we do about societal divisions that run deeper than ever?

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2YHYWF4 HERE - FILM STILLS. 2024 . USA. Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in Here - (c)Sony Pictures - is a 2024 American drama film produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis based on the 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire. The film is a nonlinear story covering a single spot of land and its inhabitants from the distant past to the present. Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, and Kelly Reilly star. Release November 2024. Captioned 12 November 2024 Ref: LMK110-MB071-121124 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service

Technology

New Tom Hanks film fails to wow despite the cutting-edge tech

Robert Zemeckis's would-be epic film Here relies on real-time de-ageing technology. But do its ambitions conceal a more mundane project?

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Technology

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Spike Jonze’s eerily prescient 2013 film Her

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Mind

Severance is still the most thoughtful, complex show on television

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: “Could life have gone any other way?”

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Space

Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay

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