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Terence Tao

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Terence Tao’s Six Maths Essentials opens his field to all of us

Terence Tao, one of the world's great mathematicians, urges us to find empowerment in numbers in his new book Six Maths Essentials. Karmela Padavic-Callaghan is convinced

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GHK674 NOVI SAD, SERBIA - AUGUST 7, 2016: Velociraptor life size model of prehistoric animal in theme entertainment Dino Park.

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What Did Dinosaurs Think About? review: delightful and informative

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niffenegger - 11/07/03 - TORONTO, ONTARIO - Chicago visual artist Audrey Niffenegger whose first novel, The Time Traveller's Wife, has caused quite a stir. It's the story of a guy with a chromosonal defect that causes him, under stress, to drop out of the present and enter (totally naked) the past or go to the future. (Photo by Rick Madonik/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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‘There’s two ways of doing time travel, right?’ says Audrey Niffenegger

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Frans de Waal, a psychologist, primatologist and ethologist, eating a banana at Barcelona zoo. He is a professor of Primate Behaviour and author of numerous books including 'Chimpanzee Politics' and 'Our Inner Ape'.

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Primatologist Frans de Waal’s final book is a rich mix of memoir and science

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Dog vomit slime mould (Fuligo septica) close up of sporangia on old tree stump, Hertfordshire, England, UK, June - Focus Stacked

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These two new sci-fi novels really impressed us

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Whalefall review: Worth watching for the bits inside a sperm whale

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Time Traveler鈥檚 Wife sequel is far more complex than its predecessor

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A man pilots a new surgery robot named "Hinotori" at the Research Institute against Digestive Cancer (IRCAD), in Strasbourg, eastern France, on September 7, 2026. (Photo by S??bastien BOZON / AFP via Getty Images)

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How to build a real relationship with AI and keep your cognitive edge

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Aurora borealis over the sea, snowy mountains at starry winter night. Northern Lights in Lofoten islands, Norway. Sky with polar lights. Landscape with aurora, rocky beach, sky, reflection in water; Shutterstock ID 2413154057; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other:

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Hidden sounds of nature brought to life in fascinating new book

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2N18F2Y In this photo made in April 2012, a wolf in a wild wood in Ukraine's Chernobyl, where nearly 30-years after a nuclear reactor caught fire and spewed a lethal cloud of radiation, some species of mammals are found to be thriving without the effect of human contact in the area. According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, led by environmental scientist Jim Smith at Britain's University of Portsmouth, the nature reserve zone extending north from Chernobyl power plant into Belarus, found that elk, deer, wild boar and wolves are now abundant in the Polesie reserve which was est

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This prize-winning sci-fi novel about wolf rewilding made me cry

When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift somehow delivers both a determined call for more wildernesses globally 鈥� and a great novel. Sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson is thrilled she gave it another chance

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Grief and tech collide in uneasily brilliant sci-fi film The Remotes

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Climate satire Digger 鈥� with Tom Cruise on top form – is full of surprises

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If you want to know how to think about healthy eating, read this book

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Don’t know where to start with AI? Kevin Roose’s new book has answers

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