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Don’t miss – a dance of death, musical exploration and maps from light

Entertain and inform yourself at the Manchester Science Festival, lap up Bach, the universe and everything in London, or delve into a new book on the lasers that are transforming the world

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Resynth, an award-winning musical game from Polyphonic LP, arrives on Steam for PCs and Macs this week. It is part puzzle, part musical instrument, part mixing desk. There are some sweet loops waiting to be unpacked here – one of the developers is a jazz pianist.

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(pictured above) runs from 18 October. Shobana Jeyasingh’s flu pandemic-inspired dance piece Contagion, a “black hole experience”, and an art exhibition, , are among the attractions .

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Todd Neff’s book The Laser That’s Changing the World (Prometheus) features how we are using lidar to map other planets.

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The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment returns to King’s Place in London to explore on 21 October. Non-musical guest Dallas Campbell will give a talk on the past and future of space travel.

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Documentary reveals a subculture as wonderful as it is weird. Its focus is the 1700 school students from around the world who attend the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles to battle for prizes.

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Topics: Books / Exhibition / games / Planets / Space