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tells the story of John Shepherd, who spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of kilometres into space. On Netflix from 20 August.

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sees Sanjay Sarma, head of open learning at MIT, join fellow researcher Luke Yoquinto to explain how scientific findings in wildly different fields are transforming the way we learn and teach.

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Driverless: who is in control? is an excellent exhibition about autonomous vehicles at London’s Science Museum. The museum reopens on 19 August, and is extending this show until January 2021.

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