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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

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends cooperative board game Sammu-ramat

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

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The scene of a black hole devouring a spaceship, digital painting, 3D illustration.

Space

This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant

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SALAR DE ATACAMA, CHILE - AUGUST 24: A lithium mine supervisor inspects an evaporation pond of lithium-rich brine in the Atacama Desert on August 24, 2022 in Salar de Atacama, Chile. Albemarle Corporation, based in Charlotte, N.C. is expanding mining operations at their Salar Plant to meet the rising global demand for lithium carbonate, a main component in the manufacture of batteries, increasingly for electric vehicles. To extract the lithium, natural brine is pumped from under the salt flats to a series of evaporation ponds. During an 18-month process, the liquid s moved through 15 ponds, eventually turning from blue to yellow with a lithium concentration of 6 percent. It is then trucked to an Albemarle chemical plant in Antofagasta, where it is processed into battery grade lithium carbonate powder and shipped out internationally. The evaporation process produces large quantities of salt byproduct, much of which is then reprocessed and sold. Chile is the second largest global producer of lithium, after Australia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Environment

The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

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Silent Men is the debut feature-length documentary from BAFTA Scotland winning Scottish filmmaker Duncan Cowles.

Health

A personal investigation into the crisis of men’s mental health

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closeup of Berry from the juneberry

Life

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry

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REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney - CalArts Theater

Society

Major US art event explores the bonds between art and science

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Space

Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral”

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Rumours (2024) still

Society

In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

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2X1H226 Klosterneuburg - Sir Roger Penrose during interview with Austria Presse Agentur at Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria on 21st May 2015. Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. - 20150521_PD11744 - Rechteinfo: Rights Managed (RM)

Physics

What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose

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PJKM6Y Weisweiler power plant in Eschweiler, RWE Power AG, brown coal power plant and wind power plants, alternative energy, fossil energy, renewable energy, smoke cloud, Eschweiler, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Environment

Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

In More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues that tackling climate change means rethinking our history of energy consumption – and exposing the green transition as a fiction

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Life

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends the Pier 26 Science Playground

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Comment

The best new science fiction books of November 2024

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Life

Tense docu-thriller exposes the cruelties of commercial whale trade

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Earth

Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids

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