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Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

Paulina Rowińska's Mapmatics: How we navigate the world through numbers is an intelligent exploration of a fascinating subject

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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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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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ 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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W0XR8N hawaii volcano kilauea

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson's novel Eruption fails to thrill

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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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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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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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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends Ice Cold: An exhibition of hip-hop jewelry

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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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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

The author of All Systems Red, the latest pick for the ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Book Club, on why her novella takes on the thorny topic of what a machine intelligence might do, if it could make its own choices

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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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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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

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