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Life

Orcas are ganging up on great white sharks to eat their livers

For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great white sharks, using a trick to flip them over, paralise them and get at their energy-rich livers

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The best new science fiction books of November 2025

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The best new science fiction books of November 2025

Culture

Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

Culture

Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

Technology

Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

Culture

If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

Culture

TOPSHOT - Workers including restaurant staff look at their phones during a break while sitting on a bench in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on September 30, 2024. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores

Culture

Never Let Me go book cover

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51¶¯Âþ recommends Never Let Me Go

Culture

Aplysia californica

Mind

Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

Culture

An aerial view of downtown San Jose California skyline taken 06-16-2021. San Jose is the core urban hub of high technology referred to as Silicon Valley.

Health

Chilling book exposes true cost of tech bros' immortality dreams

Culture

Peter Betts with delegates - Cop17 in Durban, South Africa

Environment

An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits

In the run-up to this year's COP in Brazil, Madeleine Cuff explores The Climate Diplomat, a poignant account by the late Peter Betts, a negotiator who showed what diplomacy can achieve

Culture

Life

A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them

Culture

Comment

51¶¯Âþ recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

Culture

Technology

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

Culture

Environment

Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewable power

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