Life
The best fiction and sci-fi of 2018 to wrap or read this Xmas
The best fantastic novels and comic series of the year mourn a wild past and look with trepidation towards a weird future
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Technology
Don’t miss: delusions, a prototype construction robot and a VR game
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Earth
North Pole and Polar Worlds review – why Inuit don’t worry about north
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Life
Don’t miss: tiny patterns, a transgender scientist and a Mars meeting
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Humans
Don’t Miss: social media violence, lowdown on AI, scary black holes
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Life
Don’t miss: animal-centred film, mysterious extinctions and virus art
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Health
Don’t Miss: a dance in virtual space, playable painting and podcasts
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Life
Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck’s Revenge are genetic misfits
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Life
Don’t miss – time travel anime, overpopulation and skewed food science
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Space
Red Moon review: History lessons power great new lunar future novel
According to the new book by science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, China's long past makes its domination of the moon inevitable
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Physics
Stephen Hawking, my father: “Harry Potter has magic, we have science”
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Physics
Brief Answers to the Big Questions review: Seeking the real Hawking
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Physics
Don’t miss – a dance of death, musical exploration and maps from light
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Life
David Attenborough’s Life on Earth review – a revamped classic
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