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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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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

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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�� recommends Now You See Us at the Tate Britain

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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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Humanoid robots facing each other, illustration

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

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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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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�� recommends Ice Cold: An exhibition of hip-hop jewelry

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

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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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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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51�� recommends Michael Sheen in play about the NHS's origins

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

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

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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