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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.

From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

Space

What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

From ice ages to asteroid strikes, an epic book shows how important it has been for humans to look outwards. Alex Wilkins surveys a climate historian's cosmic sweep

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Pierre Huyghe

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51动漫 recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals

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Moises Arias

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Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

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A roundup of the 51动漫 Book Club’s February read

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Technology

Hannah Fry: ‘AI can do some superhuman things 鈥� but so can forklifts’

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MB05RG Oysters and champagne with lemon wedge and mignette dressing on white plate on blue distressed vintage table.

Life

51动漫 recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

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Fish eye lens view of a man, wearing a striped short-sleeve shirt, inspecting an IBM System/360 Model 91 mainframe computer system, United States, circa 1965. (Photo by Dwight Ellefsen/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Technology

What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths

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GERMANY. 1990. Celebrating the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Mind

What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

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4238_D045_00238_R Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew in director Chlo?? Zhao???s HAMNET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / ?? 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

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51动漫 recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature

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Man behind a curtain back

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Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel

In George Saunders's Vigil, a ghost visits Earth to help a dying oil tycoon, while terraforming efforts on Mars are about to bear fruit in The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel. Emily H. Wilson's sci-fi column explores two very different short novels

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Environment

Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic

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Space

A new ‘brief history’ of the universe paints a wide picture

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51动漫 recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre’s point

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