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Book review: 'The Seven Measures of the World' by Piero Martin

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The book begins with a sketch of a moment from our recent history: 1960. Martin adopts a meandering approach to storytelling that reflects the messy nature of science, its resistance to being squashed into discrete categories or linear narratives of discovery and invention.

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Book review: ‘Joined-Up Thinking’ by Hannah Critchlow

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Now, having read the latest book by Hannah Critchlow, science outreach fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge and one of this country’s most prominent young neuroscientists, I will never be tempted to quote that saying again.

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The rapid rise of AI art

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The endless possibilities have sparked an avalanche of memes on social media, thrusting the topic of generative AI into the spotlight and raising some fundamental questions in the process: if a machine makes art, is it real art or just the result of complex calculations?

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Cream of the crop: meet the finalists for the IET Excellence and Innovation Awards

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We believe in excellence and innovation but with impact and a long-term view, and we are incorporating social and environmental impact across all categories.” The Young Pioneer is a People’s Choice category. Details of how to vote, both before and on the Awards night, will be released nearer the time.