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Of course, we must have a summer to take up the subject of summer reading. Which reminds me of a great book about Krakatoa . . .

The P Word, by Waleed Akhtar, whose play Kabul Goes Pop was a hit at Brixton House earlier this year, opens at the Bush Theatre on 9 September (press night 14 September.) Directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike (Lava, Bush Theatre), this story of who wins in the luck of the lifes draw is a new Bush Theatre commission.

The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was gigantic and deadly, but the advent of modern communications and mass media helped to make it one of the earliest and best-known modern natural catastrophes.

TUMEGGY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYGetty Images A new study provides the best evidence yet for a hidden layer deep within Earth’s solid inner core. Earth’s inner core, made of solid iron and nickel, is roughly two-thirds the size of the moon. The researchers used machine learning to pinpoint the most accurate model of the strange physical processes that shape our planets inner core. Earth’s core is a strange, strange place. For decades, scientists have suspected that, like Matryoshka stack...