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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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TOPSHOT - A man pushes a bycicle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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

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Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties

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Shipping companies are testing biofuel made from cashew nut shells

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Tiny great ape fossils identified as new species from Europe

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Dutch police trial AI-powered robot dog to safely inspect drug labs

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Animal etchings into rocks along the Orinoco River in South America

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Ancient snake drawings are among the largest known rock art worldwide

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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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

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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

In this dramatic opening to Martha Wells's All Systems Red, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to her character Murderbot, a sentient machine intelligence

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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Experience the world from a bee's perspective

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Did humans evolve to chase down prey over long distances?

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Kew Gardens exhibition confronts our disjointed connection with nature

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