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Don't miss: a chance to play WiFI Wars and revisit the Apollo 8 days

Life

Don't miss: a chance to play WiFI Wars and revisit the Apollo 8 days

Grab your smartphone as WiFi Wars erupt at the Royal Institution Christmas Bash, tune in for a rerun of an epic trip to the moon and brace for new survival game Miscreated

Culture

Bacteria could protect old paintings from pigment-eating microbes

Life

Bacteria could protect old paintings from pigment-eating microbes

News

Space art could be so much more than a shiny satellite in the sky

Space

Space art could be so much more than a shiny satellite in the sky

Analysis

cave art handprint with missing fingers

Humans

Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers

News

Darkfield's Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead

Humans

Darkfield's Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead

Culture

AI drawn faces

Technology

Nonfacial Portrait review: art fights to save faces and paint over AI

Culture

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Technology

Don't Miss: social media violence, lowdown on AI, scary black holes

Culture

They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

Technology

They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

Culture

A landscape in Borneo

Humans

World's first figurative art is of an unknown animal in Borneo

News

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Life

Don't miss: animal-centred film, mysterious extinctions and virus art

See a national park from through the eyes of animals, learn about the puzzling demise of megafauna and visit an art installation about how we visualise HIV

Culture

Technology

AI wades into the debate on age of ancient Chinese cave murals

News

Space

What it's like to be sucked into a black hole – without dying

Regulars

Earth

Liquid Crystal Display: a beautifully broken exhibition

Culture

Physics

Dawns, Mine, Crystal review – art with a crafty message for science

Culture

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