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space science

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?

Commissioning editor Marcus Gipps reveals what makes an iconic science fiction novel

Video

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Space

How faster-than-light explosions could reveal the universe’s secrets

Features

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

Culture

Physics

Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

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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

FX's Alien: Earth --

Space

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

Culture

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Physics

Should it be space-time or spacetime – and why does it matter anyway?

Comment

In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 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

The 51 Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. We liked it – but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction

Culture

Comment

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

Culture

Space

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

Culture

Video

Inside the missions that made the moon landings possible

Video

Space

NASA's first space photos restored in stunning detail

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