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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.

Success hope ambition and dream concept. Surreal artwork. Businessman with a stair in a gate, business background illustration. painting

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

An impressive and exuberant book by neuroscientist Christof Koch challenges the idea that simulating intelligence and consciousness is identical to the real deal

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Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon alongside other members of the Indigenous-led Ceibo Alliance.

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Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

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The Cannon Hall Muscat Grape. Plate 24. Watercolour on paper. Signed lower left Mrs Withers Delt. Painter to Her Majesty. 44.4 cm. x 35.2 cm., slotted onto page. c.1825.

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51动漫 recommends Now You See Us at the Tate Britain

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Humanoid robots facing each other, illustration

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI鈥檚 future in new books

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Nicki Minaj???s iconic Barbie pendant???which boasts 54.47 carats of diamonds on 18-karat gold and bright Barbie-pink enamel???was made by Ashna Mehta in 2022 and is the most recent commissioned by Minaj, whose first Barbie pendant dates to 2009.

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51动漫 recommends Ice Cold: An exhibition of hip-hop jewelry

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Aqua: Biodiversity in the Oceans

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Relax with Aqua, a colourful board game about building coral reefs

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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USA. Nevada. Las Vegas airport. 1982

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

In a social world, being alone (by choice or not) is complex. Solitude: The science and power of being alone by Netta Weinstein, Heather Hansen and Thuy-vy T. Nguyen brings us up to date

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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51动漫 recommends Michael Sheen in play about the NHS’s origins

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024’s best documentaries to date

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