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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.

Aqua: Biodiversity in the Oceans

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Relax with Aqua, a colourful board game about building coral reefs

Scrap screens for a while and enjoy the real feel of Aqua, a board game where colourful tiles grow into ecosystems. It's mostly relaxing – apart from the fiendish scoring system, says Jacob Aron

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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USA. Nevada. Las Vegas airport. 1982

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Michael Sheen 'Nye' - National Theatre

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Michael Sheen in play about the NHS’s origins

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Sting film still (2024)

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

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Mammals,28-04-2024,Heat,5 - Heat,Elephants, Zebra and Springbok gather in high densities at one of the dwindling waterholes in Etosha Salt pan, Namibia. ,BBC Studios,Screen Grab

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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024’s best documentaries to date

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MINING - West Pole Beacon.

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The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music

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Male artist, painting a new creative painting in his art studio

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Creativity’s origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

What makes some people so creative? There are many common beliefs about the neuroscience of innovation, but they fail to capture its true complexity, says Anna Abraham in her book The Creative Brain: Myths and truths

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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Child, a podcast on our first stages of life

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Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment is a moving story of love and astronomy

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