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Screengrab from LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

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51�� recommends this extreme birdwatching documentary

The books, TV, games and more that 51�� staff have enjoyed this week

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Mandatory credit Watson and Crick, discoverers of the structure of DNA. James Watson (b.1928, left) and Francis Crick (1916-2004), with their model of part of a DNA molecule in 1953. Watson and Crick met at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1951. Their work on DNA was performed with a knowledge of Chargaff's ratios of the bases in DNA and access to the X-ray crystallography of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College London. Combining this knowledge led to the deduction that DNA exists as a double helix. Crick, Watson and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Franklin having died in 1958. Photographed in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK, in May 1953.

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Surprising new biography of Francis Crick unravels the story of DNA

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New book tells compelling tale of the fight to save the Siberian tiger

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Binary star system, illustration.

Space

Deep-space sci-fi novel is delightful, profound and not to be missed

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2JHKP8X LAURENCE MASON, MATTHEW LILLARD, ANGELINA JOLIE, JONNY LEE MILLER, JESSE BRADFORD, HACKERS, 1995

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51�� recommends the cult film Hackers – 30 years late

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Father and daughter

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This book is a great insight into the new science of microchimerism

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The best new science fiction books of November 2025

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The best new science fiction books of November 2025

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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

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Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the 51�� Book Club, explores the philosophical implications of the choices her characters make

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Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores

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51�� recommends Never Let Me Go

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Mind

Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

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Life

Nature documentary shot on Super 8 film is ravishing and unpredictable

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