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Afterland review: A thought-provoking tale of life without men

Humans

Afterland review: A thought-provoking tale of life without men

Lauren Beukes's new speculative novel imagines a world stripped overnight of men. Do women do a better job of running things?

Culture

Hidden nutrition: We don't know what makes up 99 per cent of our food

Health

Hidden nutrition: We don't know what makes up 99 per cent of our food

Features

Moon craters hint huge asteroids bombarded Earth 800 million years ago

Earth

Moon craters hint huge asteroids bombarded Earth 800 million years ago

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Angle grinder

Technology

Material that cannot be cut would make the ultimate bike lock

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What is a genetically modified organism?

Question

What is a genetically modified organism?

Young Earth and moon

Space

The moon may have stopped the early Earth from being a frozen snowball

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Snowpiercer review: Step aboard a post-apocalyptic train mystery

Humans

Snowpiercer review: Step aboard a post-apocalyptic train mystery

Culture

What happens when a researcher tries to resurrect a loved one?

Humans

What happens when a researcher tries to resurrect a loved one?

Culture

Don't miss: Charlize Theron tries to avoid CCTV in The Old Guard

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Don't miss: Charlize Theron tries to avoid CCTV in The Old Guard

Culture

How academic institutions make it harder to be a female scientist

Humans

How academic institutions make it harder to be a female scientist

Picture a 51�� shines a light on gender discrimination in science – and also finds reasons to be hopeful, says Simon Ings

Culture

Technology

How to avoid a techno-apocalypse brought on by the internet

Culture

Humans

Minority scientists still face many forms of institutional racism

Insight

Humans

Upload review: An odd afterlife where your brain is kept in the cloud

Culture

Environment

Only a fifth of ice-free land on Earth has very little human influence

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