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Members of the medical staff at the Elithair clinic conduct an artificial Intelligence analysis of Felix Hofmann's scalp and his hair roots.

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A skilful primer makes sense of the mathematics beneath AI's hood

Anil Ananthaswamy's Why Machines Learn: The elegant maths behind modern AI explores the mechanics of the AI revolution, but doesn't examine its ethics

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Nine profiles of neurodiverse people reveal rich and creative worlds

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An entertaining history of gases shows science at work in daily life

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How to make a perfect baked Alaska? It's all about thermodynamics

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Why many inventions, from flying cars to smart robots, fail to launch

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Why do teenagers take such risks? A new book has some answers

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Why do teenagers take such risks? A new book has some answers

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Cute housebot Sunny lures us into an intriguing and flawed TV show

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

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Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

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A man is lying in a hammock in the sun, he is reading a book on his digital tablet. The hammock is hanging in a beautiful green forest in Sweden.

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The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far

Want to save our seas? Make exotic cocktails? Ponder life's meaning? Whatever your plans this July, Simon Ings rounds up the year's best non-fiction so far

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The best science fiction books of 2024 so far

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The best new science fiction books of July 2024

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Matt Parker's comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths

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A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war

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