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Don’t miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game

Peek behind the scenes of the lab at London's Francis Crick Institute, hear all about the proposed particle accelerator at CERN and play a new video game

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Dieter Helm’s (William Collins) delivers handsomely on the promise in its title.

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, an exhibition (pictured) at the Francis Crick Institute in London, will take visitors behind the scenes to see what is needed to support the research carried out there, including the thousands of flasks and test tubes that need cleaning. From 1 March.

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is in some UK cinemas for World Book Day on 7 March. It is a powerful coming-of-age film about the state of education in the UK. A key claim is that one in five English 11-year-olds can’t read well.

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, a hypnotic video game about music, geometry and being in the moment, lands on Steam this month and seals the reputation of developers Ludopium for combining edgy music, art and experimentation.

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The Next Mega-Collider at London’s Royal Institution at 7pm GMT on 7 March. The Future Circular Collider would be many times more powerful than CERN’s current collider, the LHC.

Topics: Books and art / education / Environment / Particle physics / Video games