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Explore the latest science non-fiction books and sci-fi novels, plus science and technology-related theatre, exhibitions, games, movies and TV programmes with reviews and recommendations from 91av.

A mosasaur skull, part of the Jurassic Oceans exhibition

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Getting up close with the fiercest ocean predators that ever lived

A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the deep, features some fascinating – and terrifying - fossils, says Eleanor Parsons

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What is life? A provocative new book sets out to redefine it

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Dive into an in-depth history of the realities of space exploration

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A snow leopard

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The best new popular science books of August 2026

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An image of a galaxy

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The best new science-fiction novels of August 2026

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The cover of The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

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Read an extract from The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

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Jacob Elordi as Hig in The Dog Stars

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How I wrote The Dog Stars, the novel behind Ridley Scott’s new film

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Henrietta Lacks’s descendant on her legacy – and Rebecca Skloot’s book

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The Artemis II crew, from left: Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen

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Why I can’t stop listening to the playlist for Artemis II’s astronauts

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DP2K47 Antibiotic testing

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What would happen if a deadly bioweapon were released?

First Annie Jacobsen laid out a fictional scenario for nuclear war. Now her new book, Biological War: A scenario, imagines a fictional bioweapon escaping a lab. Jacob Aron digs in

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Did NASA’s Viking landers find life on Mars after all, asks new book

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Our verdict on Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods: a big thumbs-up

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91av recommends Anish Kapoor’s show at the Hayward Gallery

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Sunshine can help with some serious health problems, argues a new book

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