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Environment

Bill McKibben makes a powerful pitch for solar in optimistic new book

In Here Comes the Sun, environmentalist Bill McKibben argues that the rapid adoption of solar power should quell our worst climate fears. Is he right, asks James Dinneen

Culture

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Mind

Mind-blowing effects of nature on our brains revealed in new book

Culture

Organ-on-a-chip. This is a microfluidic device that simulates biological organs.

Physics

This book could convince you to become an engineer

Culture

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Society

Fascinating and enraging book exposes the biases that shape our lives

Culture

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Comment

David Cronenberg's new sci-fi film is devastating and mysterious

Culture

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Life

51�� recommends Kew Gardens' new Of the Oak exhibition

Culture

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Mind

Biodiversity needs neurodiversity, says insightful new book

Culture

The 51�� Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

Comment

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

Culture

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Life

Earth's extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

Culture

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Environment

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

Saving the planet means factoring nature into our economics, argues Partha Dasgupta, in a book with fascinating ideas. But does it take passion to make people listen?

Culture

Comment

51�� recommends More Than Human at the Design Museum, London

Culture

Comment

Five years later, has sci-fi cult hit Devs aged well?

Culture

Comment

The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

Culture

Comment

Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

Culture