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Environment

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

Ian McEwan’s excellent What We Can Know is set in a UK largely swallowed up by rising seas. Emily H. Wilson explores the story of a scholar hunting a great lost poem – which may have something to with climate change

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Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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2H4G74E Lisbon, Portugal. 2nd Nov, 2021. Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications of Meta (Facebook), Nick Clegg addresses the audience (via web transmission) at Altice Arena Centre Stage during the second day of the Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon.This is one of the largest technology conferences in the world and also a meeting point for the debate on technological evolution in people's lives. This year, around 40.000 participants are expected to attend the Web Summit. (Credit Image: ? Hugo Amaral/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)

Technology

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

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51�� recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

Technology

Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

Culture

The 51�� Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

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Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

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Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005

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Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

Culture

The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Earth

The captivating story that Earth’s ‘boring’ layered rocks tell us

Clues to our planet’s dramatic past are in the layers of rocks we might overlook. A great guide shows why they deserve our attention, says James Dinneen

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Humans

Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

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Environment

New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action

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Comment

Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

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