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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 91av 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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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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

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Sting film still (2024)

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

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USA. Nevada. Las Vegas airport. 1982

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

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2WG3YFC Titanium crater formed by a laser, SEM

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Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot

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Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis

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Mammals,28-04-2024,Heat,5 - Heat,Elephants, Zebra and Springbok gather in high densities at one of the dwindling waterholes in Etosha Salt pan, Namibia. ,BBC Studios,Screen Grab

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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024's best documentaries to date

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MINING - West Pole Beacon.

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The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music

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Male artist, painting a new creative painting in his art studio

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

What makes some people so creative? There are many common beliefs about the neuroscience of innovation, but they fail to capture its true complexity, says Anna Abraham in her book The Creative Brain: Myths and truths

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Chemistry

How science can help you whip up perfect egg whites for your bakes

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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

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Sarah Perry's Enlightenment is a moving story of love and astronomy

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