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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 51动漫.

Adam Scott in "Severance," premiering 17 January 2025 on Apple TV+. Severance Press images from AppleTV https://www.apple.com/uk/tv-pr/originals/severance/

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Severance is still the most thoughtful, complex show on television

After three long years of hoping, it seemed impossible that the second season of Severance could live up to the scope and ambition of the first. But, mercifully, it has, says Bethan Ackerley

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: “Could life have gone any other way?”

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Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay

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Top view of pills grouped in plastic container

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What can we learn from a debunked theory of depression?

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apple splash explosion fruit yellow green red water juice

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A rich guide to the science of imagination also digs into art

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South Bank: Architecture & Design Dominic Bradbury Rachael Smith Batsford

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51动漫 recommends artist Philippe Parreno鈥檚 new work, Voices

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 16: Portrait of Iain M. Banks being interviewed by SFX Magazine/Future via Getty Images on June 16, 2010. (Photo by Joseph Branston/SFX Magazine/Future via Getty Images)

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Rereading the best science fiction writers of all time: Iain M. Banks

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Victor Watts/Shutterstock (173165p) Gerald Durrell with Lemurs Various Portraits - 1990

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Memoir offers new insights into the life of naturalist Gerald Durrell

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Hessian sack of cocoa beans are placed outside a warehouse on October 10, 2015 in Gagnoa, in southern Ivory Coast. Gagnoa is the chief collecting point for a forest region that sends coffee, cocoa, and timber. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)

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Nerve-racking tale of reviving wild cocoa to make amazing chocolate

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51动漫 recommends climate change play Kyoto

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

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Oracles, Omens and Answers is a revealing gaze at prediction’s past

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The best new science fiction books of January 2025

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The best sci-fi TV shows of all time, according to 51动漫

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The best science fiction TV shows to look forward in 2025

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