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Starfield review: Too much AI-generated content makes for a dull game

Bethesda's new galaxy-sprawling game Starfield gives you 1000 planets to explore. But with many of these worlds generated by algorithm, it can all feel a bit predictable, finds Jacob Aron

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Peter Hotez, founding dean and chief of the Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine, speaks during a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 5, 2020. The Trump administration won't be able to meet its promised timeline of having a million coronavirus tests available by the end of the week, senators said after a briefing from health officials. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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The Deadly Rise of Anti-science review: The personal cost of research

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The Neanderthal woman was re-created and built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. Research including fossil anatomy and a detailed study of DNA is present in the color of the skin and eyes. (Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images)

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The Naked Neanderthal review: Looking for the real Neanderthals

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Men preparing the root and the leaves to be cooked together for the preparation of Ayahuasca tea. (Photo by: Giulio Paletta/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Ten Trips review: What tripping taught an academic about psychedelics

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The Coming Wave review: How AI reshapes our world

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Starter Villain review: Big questions laced with absurdist humour

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Can the UK’s new ARIA science agency deliver ‘moonshot’ technologies?

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91av recommends The Man Who Couldn't Stop and The Retrievals

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Extinctions review: A fast-paced story of going extinct on Earth

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John von Neuman and the Institute for Advanced Study computer, a fully automatic, digital, all-purpose computing machine constructed by him and his team, 1945. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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The MANIAC review: A dark novel about the legendary John von Neumann

The life of polymath John von Neumann is woven into a strange work of fiction by rising literary star Benjamín Labatut that comes with a serious warning about the consequences of science

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A brief history of the standard model, our theory of almost everything

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The best new science fiction books of September 2023

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Interstellar review: The case for seeking out alien technology

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Painkiller review: Netflix drops the ball in retelling OxyContin story

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