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Matt Parker's comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths

Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker's Love Triangle is fast-paced, with nuggets about everything from impossible soccer balls to duck wakes. But it doesn't leave our reviewer understanding trigonometry any better

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Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book

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Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

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Janus Films handout film still: THE BEAST Directed by Bertrand Bonello. The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely ?erase? their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Le?a Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay).

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Léa Seydoux and George MacKay dazzle in shocking sci-fi film The Beast

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New book explores how games shape the world – for better or for worse

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The science behind making perfect puff pastry

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Liquid crystals could improve quantum communication devices

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Liquid crystals could improve quantum communication devices

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We could detect a malfunctioning warp drive on an alien starship

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson's novel Eruption fails to thrill

Eruption, the much-vaunted "collaboration" of the late Michael Crichton and thriller king James Patterson, may work better as a film than a book. Wait till then, says Emily H. Wilson

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How to take on AI's challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

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Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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