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The best new popular science books of 2024

From a scientific take on screen time to nuclear war, a look at why we age to the future of our oceans, our writers pick their favourite popular science books of the year

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Stunning Never Let Me Go stage version asks the big questions

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Stunning Never Let Me Go stage version asks the big questions

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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Could brain freezing cure all disease – indirectly?

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New Scientist recommends cooperative board game Sammu-ramat

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This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant

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Vaclav Smil's take on how to feed future populations has one big flaw

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SALAR DE ATACAMA, CHILE - AUGUST 24: A lithium mine supervisor inspects an evaporation pond of lithium-rich brine in the Atacama Desert on August 24, 2022 in Salar de Atacama, Chile. Albemarle Corporation, based in Charlotte, N.C. is expanding mining operations at their Salar Plant to meet the rising global demand for lithium carbonate, a main component in the manufacture of batteries, increasingly for electric vehicles. To extract the lithium, natural brine is pumped from under the salt flats to a series of evaporation ponds. During an 18-month process, the liquid s moved through 15 ponds, eventually turning from blue to yellow with a lithium concentration of 6 percent. It is then trucked to an Albemarle chemical plant in Antofagasta, where it is processed into battery grade lithium carbonate powder and shipped out internationally. The evaporation process produces large quantities of salt byproduct, much of which is then reprocessed and sold. Chile is the second largest global producer of lithium, after Australia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

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New Scientist recommends Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

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Silent Men is the debut feature-length documentary from BAFTA Scotland winning Scottish filmmaker Duncan Cowles.

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A personal investigation into the crisis of men's mental health

The issue of men's dangerously bottled-up emotions finds a fresh and personal voice in Silent Men, a documentary that is at its most powerful when director Duncan Cowles turns the camera on others

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Major US art event explores the bonds between art and science

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"

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New Scientist recommends the Pier 26 Science Playground

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In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

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