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WAYWARD. (L to R) Sydney Topliffe as Abbie and Alyvia Alyn Lind as Leila in episode 101 of Wayward. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix ?? 2025

Disturbing Netflix mystery explores a world out to 'solve' adolescence

Set at a strange academy in small-town Vermont, Netflix’s Wayward aims to pacify unruly teens by master manipulation. Bethan Ackerley finds a creepy, troubled world

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A woman is holding a placard with a sanitary towel with fake blood, during the Women's March held in Amsterdam, on March 8th, 2020. (Photo by Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Health

Exploring PMS is a great idea, but The Period Brain can be simplistic

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New Scientist recommends Chris Hadfield's Final Orbit

Space

51�� recommends Chris Hadfield's Final Orbit

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Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

Comment

The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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: Ludovic Slimak, discoverer of Thorin showing the Thorin maxillar. Photography Laure Metz

Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

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A man tends to vegetables growing in a field as emissions rise from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. China's economy expanded at its weakest pace since 2009, according to figures Monday, with gross domestic product rising 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Environment

Two climate scientists on how to use emotion in the climate crisis

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Life

51�� recommends David Attenborough's Parenthood

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BOSTON - OCTOBER 10: Harvard University 51�� Steven Pinker poses for a portrait in his office on October 10, 2005 in Boston, MA. (Photo by Jean-Christian Bourcart/Getty Images)

Mind

Steven Pinker’s new book shows how he’s become a contradictory figure

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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

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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

We know fermented foods do us good, but the ZOE founder's new book still surprises with fascinating facts - and avoids feeling like an ad for his gut supplements, says Helen Thomson

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Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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Space

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

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Mind

51�� recommends podcast Where the Wild Thoughts Are

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Technology

No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says

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