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Want to know what´s next for the human race? Step into Jim Al-Khalili´s time machine ...

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Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again.

Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our future. So here, Jim Al-Khalili and his crack team of experts bin the crystal ball and use cutting-edge science to get a glimpse of what´s in store.

From whether teleportation is really possible (spoiler: it is), to what we´ll do if artificial intelligence takes over, What´s Next? takes on the big questions. And along the way, it´ll answer questions like: Will we find a cure to all diseases? An answer to climate change? Will bionics make us into superheroes?

Touching on everything from genetics to transport, and nanotechnology to teleportation, What´s Next? is a fascinating, fun and informative look at what´s in store for the human race.

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A collection of mind-boggling essays that are just the thing for firing up your brain cells Saga

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Adam Kucharski is a lecturer in mathematical modelling at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an award-winning science writer. Born in 1986, he studied at the University of Warwick before completing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He has published papers on topics ranging from statistics to social behaviour, and has worked on disease forecasting for avian influenza and Ebola. Winner of the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, his popular science articles have appeared in the Observer, BBC Focus and Scientific American. He lives in London.

Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including BBC Radio 4, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel. She is the author of Like A Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex. She lives in London.

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