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This book is a great insight into the new science of microchimerism

Lise Barnéoud's Hidden Guests shows how this fascinating new field brings with it profound implications for medicine, and even what it means to be human, finds Helen Thomson

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New book tells compelling tale of the fight to save the Siberian tiger

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Space

Deep-space sci-fi novel is delightful, profound and not to be missed

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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

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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

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

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

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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?

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51�� recommends Never Let Me Go

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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

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Mind

Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form of the objective? Nikolay Kukushkin's One Hand Clapping is a bold voyage around the mysteries of the human mind, finds Thomas Lewton

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Environment

An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits

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Health

Chilling book exposes true cost of tech bros' immortality dreams

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Technology

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

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51�� recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

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