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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.

Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

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What to read this week: Emma Chapman’s mind-expanding Radio Universe

An imaginative and compelling book reveals how radio waves help us tune in to our universe – and even search for alien civilisations, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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How To Talk to AI

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Jamie Bartlett’s insightful How to Talk to AI

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Kerllen Costa, Dr. Steve Boyes, and a group of Angolan tribal hunters check Steve's cellphone video of a ghost elephant at their search camp. (Credit: Ariel Leon Isacovitch) Ghost Elephants

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Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary

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Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

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EDITORIAL USE ONLY Quaz Qureshi in ???Museum of Edible Earth', a new exhibition by dr. masharu on display at Somerset House in London. Picture date: Tuesday March 17, 2026. PA Photo. The exhibition explores the practice of 'geophagy', the consumption of earth for health, customary, or culinary benefits, running from March 18 to April 26. Photo credit should read: David Parry/PA Media Assignments

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends sampling the Museum of Edible Earth in London

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Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

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Life

What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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What to read this week: Lixing Sun’s ambitious On the Origin of Sex

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Mind

Michael Pollan: ‘Consciousness is really under siege’

A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He tells Olivia Goldhill what he learned – and how it changed him

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends the engaging Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal

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The best new popular science books of April 2026

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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Author of Red Mars calls ‘bullshit’ on emigrating to the planet

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