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Technology

If you love AI, you'll love Ken Liu's new cyberpunk thriller

In Ken Liu's All That We See or Seem, a once-famous hacker must find a missing dream-weaver. One for AI fans, but it didn't quite work for Emily H. Wilson

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Handout still for the film Blue Planet Red. Wrench Tool and Container Discovered by Rolf Varga, the Spirit Rover photographed two funny-looking rocks that resemble a wrench and open-top container laid on its side. https://blueplanetred.net/images

Space

Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant

Culture

Left: Cover of The Dispossessed. Right: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

Features

Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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: Ludovic Slimak, discoverer of Thorin showing the Thorin maxillar. Photography Laure Metz

Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

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Environment

Simple menu tweak can nudge people into choosing climate-friendly food

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New Zealand, South Island, Wanaka, Otago, Woman on Coromandel peak at sunrise

Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

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Physics

Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob

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Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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Space

Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

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Technology

Nick Clegg says nothing at all in new book How to Save the Internet

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